Writing to Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises wrote "You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you."
quoted in Corey Robin's review of two books about Ayn Rand in the NATION, June 7, 2010, p. 26. Strangely, (Robin says that von Mises was "one of the presiding eminences of neoclassical economics." Perhaps this refers to neoliberal economics, since von Mises' so-called "Austrian" school is officially anti-neoclassical.) -- Jim Devine "All science would be superfluous if the form of appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
