On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:47:22AM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote: > Thus said Charles Curley on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:56:21 MST: > > > A lot of Austrian economists are to be found, not on campus, but on > > Wall St. making money with investments, Alan Greenspan formerly > > being an example. Peter Schiff is another. Walter Block, at Loyola > > University in New Orleans, is an excellent counter example. > > I would hardly call Alan Greenspan an Austrian Economist. He may > have been at one point in time, very close to that school of > thought, but I believe he strayed from that a long time ago.
I quite agree, and was very careful to say, "formerly". Read some of the things he wrote back in his Ayn Rand days and compare those with his actions as head of the Fed. Heck, compare those with his action of taking the job. John Galt was smarter than that. > And with respect to Walter Block, while he may not be successful > financially speaking, he sure does make up for it in the press... You must know something I don't. I've never seen Block's balance sheet, so I have no idea how financially sucessful he is. I meant solely to point him out as an excellent academic Austrian. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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