It was great to have C.Jay Engel join us for this years AERC.
At AustroLibertarian.com he has written about his experiences at the conference.
One of the keynote lectures at the 2018 AERC event was given by the immensely interesting Richard Ebeling who gave a talk relating to his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit Moscow to work through the Mises papers and notes that had been stolen by the Nazis when they raided Mises’ Vienna apartment. (My wife and I were lucky enough to visit the apartment in 2013 when we visited Austria.) Ebeling tells the tale of a Mises who, despite very real political odds set against him as an opponent of the rising tide of Economic Planning in the world of growing Nazism, continued with tremendous output. And not only was there an impressive quantity to this output, there was also a perhaps even more impressive quality.
For Mises truly lived up to the motto of his family crest, that one should never give in to evil. The principles held firm in the mind of Mises were of great worth. And not even the threat of academic neglect, of unpopularity, of certain death if he stayed in Austria– not even these could stay Mises’ pen. This commitment to the discovery and advancement of truth is why the Mises Institute exists today. And I am grateful that I get to involve myself more and more in the their efforts to stand as an intellectual bulwark against statism in our time. The Mises Institute is a wonderful testament to the achievements that can be made by sticking to principle and repudiating the economic, political, and social trends of the age.
You can read the full article here.
All of our AERC keynote lectures will soon be available on our Youtube channel. Photos from the event can be found here.
