In response to my post on the Mises Academy, “Le Master” shares the following poignant and lovely reflection:
The road to this point has encountered some moments of tremendous exasperation. In late 1968 Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota and Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago held their “great debate” on “Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy” at NYU. It received national front-page coverage. Hundreds of people attended; additional rooms had to be found to accommodate them. Later that same evening, Mises held a seminar across the hall where only fewer than a dozen people showed.
That fall evening, the public wasn’t listening to the teachings of Mises. But on a spring evening this year, it’s going to be much different.
Won’t you join us on that spring evening?
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Good stuff. I can’t wait. I get paid Friday and it’s all going towards rent and this academy.
Great story. Mises was a true pedagogue. If he allowed that lack of popularity to thwart his promotion of the truth, who knows where we’d be today. Certainly not here.
I envy those who were able to attend such an up close and personal lesson of Mises.
How lucky were they?
The URL “academy.mises.org” at the end of your posting is not working.
The URL “misesacademy.org” is working.
I think there needs to be a correction made.
Hmm, it’s working for me… Well just in case people are having trouble with the subdomain, I’ve changed the second link to misesacademy.org. Thanks Curt!
With bells on. I have to admit that I’m a little nervous though. There are going to be some smart cookies in the class. I hope I can keep up.
That must have been so discouraging. Poor Mises.
Congratulations and best wishes are in order!
Are Mises’ lecture notes ever going to be made available? Do they even exist?
Touching story!
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