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From: "Vincent Cook" <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]>
Date: 1998/05/13
Subject: Re: To David Friedman: Antitrust
Gordon Sollars wrote: This is more polite than Friedman characterizing Rothbard's work as a >I enjoy reading Rothbard in high dudgeon as much as the next libertarian, but >I would suggest that it is a mistake to confuse this aspect of his writing >with good scholarship. hatchet job, but it suffers from the same problem - unsupported attacks against Rothbard do not add up to a refutation of his analysis. >> As for the "what if" scenario in your second question, it is I think it is easier to work out the logical implications of a theory >> impossible to speculate intelligently about the outcome. For all we >> know, both men might have pursued some completely different interest >> than writing about economics. >But you find no difficulty in speculating about what detailed policies the and to investigate how committed a theorist was in acting on their ideas than it is to invent facts that are contrary to history and use that as the basis for judging people. >Is there more than one economist who hangs out here? :-) Perhaps you mean Well, I'm not that fussy about academic titles and positions, so I >"students of Economics". ;-) sometimes treat people as experts in a field even when they don't have a state-approved degree declaring them as such. I can think of at least a couple of other h.p.o. regulars who have a strong background in economics (though not necessarily the Austrian theories I am interested in) and are in jobs that require the use of their economics training. And who knows - maybe somebody like Greenspan happens to have gone under very deep cover and secretly lurks hereabouts. -- Vincent Cook <xyzepicu...@xyzcreative.net> Remove the xyz's Epicurus & Epicurean Philosophy Page - http://www.creative.net/~epicurus/ PGP Key - http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html Key fingerprint = 6C AC 39 33 4C F1 72 13 38 89 45 B2 34 D0 69 27 . You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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