The Mises Bust
Sep 17th, 2009 @ 01:00 pm › Mises Store Updates
Number in stock: 17
It has been a long wait, and quite an ordeal working with many specialists in the structure of production here, but at long last, the Mises Institute is very pleased to present the Mises Bust, a replica made from the one made during Mises’s life and designed while he was sitting at his desk in his office.
The Mises Bust celebrates the great and courageous intellectual of the 20th century, memorializes him and his work in a deserving way. It is the crown jewel of all the memorabilia offered by the Mises Store.
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11 Responses
You would have a lot more than 17 Mises Busts if you lowered interest rates and created more Mises Booms.
Was he suffering from the Hangover Theory on the day he sat for the sculptor?
@kalim
That is the funniest thing I’ve read all day.
In the name of job creation, the Institute should apply for stimulus money; after all, free money increased production : ).
I think you should pay people to “bust” them, and then glue them back together. That will stimulate the economy.
O no! We seem to have a bust again!
Is this a limited edition of 17, or might there be more in future?
I realize this’ll be extremely unpopular with the garden-variety Austrian….but does no one else get an uncomfortable (squeamish?) sensation in their gut about the tacit hero-worship in the creation and marketing of this bust? Do you think Mises himself would’ve approved? (If so, my estimation of him, and LVMI, is much too generous.)
I’m as agnostic as it gets, but I do believe that most of the commandments and admonitions of the Judeo-Christian tradition are simply good, commonsense rules to live by….and one of those commonsense rules is the VERY specific commandment to have no “no graven images”…not even graven images of Jehovah himself, the creator of EVERYTHING! (in the Judeo-Christian tradition, of course).
No doubt there are thousands who’ll cry foul at this accusation, but it doesn’t change the fact that, in creating this bust, the focus is removed from the message to the messenger…the first step of hero-worship. And hero-worship is the best way to begin the insidious downward spiral of any movement.
Thank goodness he looks like far more like WC Fields than some idealized Charlemagne-of-economics riding on his white steed.
Allow me to retract the comparison to WC Fields…upon further perusal I can see perfectly well the sculptor was shooting for Walter Mitty.
Save your $275 and buy a few of his books to send to your misinformed friends…or, if you simply must indulge in hero-worship, at least put a party hat on him and hang a joint from his lips.
Jeff Lafferty wrote:
“I realize this’ll be extremely unpopular with the garden-variety Austrian….but does no one else get an uncomfortable (squeamish?) sensation in their gut about the tacit hero-worship in the creation and marketing of this bust?”
“Save your $275 and buy a few of his books to send to your misinformed friends…or, if you simply must indulge in hero-worship, at least put a party hat on him and hang a joint from his lips.”
Well, yeah, I think it’s a little cultish, and I wouldn’t buy one of these busts myself. But if I had one of them given to me as a gift, I wouldn’t put a joint in his mouth. I don’t agree with Mises on a lot of subjects, and certainly don’t consider him a demigod, but I respect the man’s dedication and scholarship, and wouldn’t disrespect him like that.
I would buy the bust in a heartbeat if it did a better job of conveying both the physical appearance and, for lack of a better word, intensity of the man. Or Man.