People say stuff like “you have to admire their ambition,” and you don’t, really, but it’s clear why people say stuff like that. They were going to tear down knowledge and build it back up from scratch on the basis of first principles. Von Mises especially insisted that all forms of knowledge other than that based on his “praxology” were suspect. Von Mises and von Hayek (I like to add the “vons” – let’s make sure everyone knows their class status), especially the former, wrote dense, stormy tracts. Milton Friedman, “Capitalism and Freedom” (1962) – What’s worse- the pedant or the spin doctor? The bitter pill or the shitty candy coating? That’s what I found myself thinking reading this, probably the last libertarian book I’ll read for “general education” (as opposed to “get a load of this fucking freak”) purposes for some time, and comparing it to others I’ve read recently. Name Asterisk on Review- Ma, “Harassment A… Review – Fountain, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”.
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