| Peter Klein |
Rafe Champion points out that Ludwig von Mises and Karl Popper, despite a shared commitment to classical liberalism and joint membership in the Mont Pelerin society, then the premier scholarly association of free-market intellectuals, didn’t get along. Mises and Popper were miles apart, epistemologically, and neither was enamored of the other’s work. Still, their relationship is interesting and worthy of further study. (Hayek of course was deeply influenced by both men.)
Unfortunately, in the comments to Rafe’s post the subject of Mises’s alleged “intolerance” rares its ugly head. A commentator refers to the story, repeated ad nauseam by Milton Friedman, that Mises once stormed out of a session of the Mont Pelerin society, shouting “You’re all a bunch of socialists!” The inference is that anyone making such a statement in a room full of distinguished non-socialists (Friedman, Stigler, Robbins, Knight) must be an extremist, a crank, or both.
View original post 145 more words
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Recent Comments