Anyone on this board had the opportunity to meet Mises, Rothbard, or Hayek?
If so what were your impressions?
Or, which of the current living Austrians actually got to meet and/or study under any of the above?
@ Jeremiah
"One of the (very few, perhaps the only) problems I have with the publication output of Murray N. Rothbard is that he never wrote his autobiography." Walter Block
I completely agree.
I did find the book that mike spoke of (or atlest i think it is)
http://mises.org/books/memoriam.pdf
There is always this great talk by Walter block
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtYH77bxeCU
My guess is you've seen them already if so I'll try and source more stuff for ya.
Given Rothbard's impressive library and daily reading schedule, what are the odds that he was a speed reader?
Richard Ebeling:
"The late Roy Childs, who was editor of Libertarian Review in the 1970s and long served as book reviewer for the Laissez Faire book catalog, was for many years a close friend of Murray Rothbard's. He told that he was once staying over at Rothbard's New York City apartment. In the living room one day, Roy was slowly reading through a book, while Rothbard sat on a couch across the room rapidly turning the pages of a book he was going through.
Roy asked him how he could absorb what the author was trying to say going through the volume that quickly. Rothbard threw the book across the room and said, "Roy, open it to any page, any page and I'll tell you what he says." Roy randomly opened the book, started reading from a passage, and Rothbard finished it for him. Practically every room in Rothbard's large apartment was lined from floor to ceiling with bookcases. Murray said, "Roy, pick any book, any book off any shelf, open the book to any page and I'll tell you about the author's argument." Roy picked a dust-covered book about ethics from a top shelf, opened it, and began to read aloud. Rothbard not only finished explaining the author's theory, but critically analyzed it and told Roy the other books that needed to be read to fully understand why the author was wrong!"
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0796g.asp
There is always this great talk by Walter block http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtYH77bxeCU
First time seeing this. Great vid!
Viresh quoting Ebeling:Roy picked a dust-covered book about ethics from a top shelf, opened it, and began to read aloud. Rothbard not only finished explaining the author's theory, but critically analyzed it and told Roy the other books that needed to be read to fully understand why the author was wrong!
So depressing. I need a beer.
VIRESH! Stop it! Aghhh! Dammit I need to go buy a Hummer or something to compensate.
HOW DID HE DO THAT?! I don't buy it. I remember Walter Block saying he could write 24 pages a day (ARGH!). If he had an apartment so full of books, writing basically a novel a day. I don't buy, even at 4 hours a day I don't see how it could be done. Or even to have that level of focus for 4 hours. ARGH.
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"Even when leftists talk about discrimination and sexism, they're damn well talking about the results of the economic system" ~Neodoxy
Go to Mark Thornton and then to the last paragraph on pg 27 about the man on the street interview.
viresd amin: http://mises.org/books/memoriam.pdf Go to Mark Thornton and then to the last paragraph on pg 27 about the man on the street interview.
Does anyone have a copy of that interview?
If I wrote it more than a few weeks ago, I probably hate it by now.
On this, while at Mises University i begged Lew Roockwell and Doug French to survey those who personally knew Murray Rothbard for personal stories and memories befor some of them pass away. The next biographer would be at a loss if such information wasn't collected. I just found out from J Tucker that the Mises Insitute is indeed pursusing this...so happy!!
Read until you have something to write...Write until you have nothing to write...when you have nothing to write, read...read until you have something to write...Jeremiah
GTK! Thanks!
Whats odd is that Rothbard once said the Ayn Rand depressed him, later when he renewed their friendship he actually told her something to the nature of he felt a humbling awe in her presence.
if I ever got to meet Hayek, I would ask him what he thought of Stiglitz extension of his work on information in economics (i think he would be pretty proud).
i would also ask him why he essentially gave up econ halfway through his career
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine - Elvis Presley
"HOW DID HE DO THAT?! I don't buy it. I remember Walter Block saying he could write 24 pages a day (ARGH!). If he had an apartment so full of books, writing basically a novel a day. I don't buy, even at 4 hours a day I don't see how it could be done. Or even to have that level of focus for 4 hours. ARGH."
Well, it doesn't mean 24 good pages. :P I don't write nearly that much, and I know I throw away half of what I write.
I mean, if he really wrote 24 pages per day, thats over 6,000 pages per year if he took weekends off. That's probably more than he published in his lifetime. ;) So don't feel that bad.