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I'm going to miss this place. Even in its worst days it still functioned as a kind of outlet for me, kept a community going with posters getting more educated and teaching each other through these threads in a kind of indirectly collaborative way. This is why it was worse when many of the knowledgeable older members left. In addition I've found
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Guys, you might make me shed a tear at this rate. I may write an article for Mises.org following an over 2 year hiatus... Might join the new forum if I remember it exists. :P Kudos if you can figure out who I am. (though I now realise I've given a huge clue...)
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[quote] I didn't get on these forums until end of the year 09, but I remember the material generally being of the highest quality at about early/mid 2010. [/quote] Were you using a different username then? I stalked your profile just now and your oldest post was from March 2011.
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I'd agree with that list but would add a few further honourable mentions. Let's not forget Esuric, Jonathan Catalan (though he still blogs) and nirgraham uk (occasionally pokes his head round here). I could list more actually (note you cited Student twice! Economistintraining and Neoclassical were also interesting members of this forum, think
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[quote] Yeah, which one? @abskebabs I agree, although I believe that it's up from what it's been at certain points in the past. [/quote] Largely my own un-pc opinion, but I think it was before the time of you young pups :P. I would put it from around the middle of 2008 to late 2010.
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Somehow I feel the golden age of this community has long passed. Alas... :P
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[quote] DD5 - I was thinking about that. If I recall correctly, Mises argued that even if there were no information problem, the government still couldn't solve the economic problem. Is this correct? Even so, the fact that the market can distribute information like this is phenomenal.[/quote] I agree. I think Mises' statement about a calculation
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It is an excellent essay. I still find it amusing when some textbooks claim things like what Hayek says here is "fully expressed" by the Pareto Welfare theorems.
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MES is definitely a valuable read, especially the chapters on Production theory constituting the heart of the book. I find Rothbard a little bit pedantic on Value theory and methodology, though most of the first 200 pages I think may be a little boring for anyone who's read Human Action in depth first. On the other hand, as an alternative you could
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108. Private ownership of the means of production. duh