[Excerpt from Murray N. Rothbard, A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2005), part 4, pp. 400–24.]

Most critics of Austrian economics have little or no clue about the theory or what it explains. But it happens, albeit not often, that critics have at least cursory knowledge of the Austrian corpus. Such critics, far and wide between, tend to target Mises’s praxeology rather than the economic theory per se. They obviously consider the logic of action a low-hanging fruit. The problem is that they pick it from the wrong tree.

[Gerontocracy In America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It by Samuel Moyn. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026; 299 pp.)]