Target Liberty: IHS Lists 'Pinkos' as 'Champions of Liberty' But Fails to List Real Champions: Ron Paul and Murray Rothbard

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Michael Edelstein responded to IHS with a CC to Walter Block and me:

From: Michael R. Edelstein [mailto:DrEdelstein@ThreeMinuteTherapy.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 2:34 PM
To: opportunity@theihs.org
Cc: Bob Wenzel; Walter Block
Subject: Re: We've updated TheIHS.org, now it's your turn!

Thank you.

Have you not mistakenly omitted Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Ron Paul?

Typo: Lysandre
Warm regards, Michael
Clinical Psychologist
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Walter responded to Michael and me:

Dear Folks:

They do include Mises. They are also missing Ayn Rand. Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul are GIGANTIC oversights.

Hayek and Friedman are pinkos as far as I’m concerned.

Anti Friedman:

Berliner, 1995, 326; Block, 1969, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2010; Friedman and Block, 2006; Long, 2006; Marcus, 2007; Rand, undated; Rothbard, 2002; Sennholz, 2006; Vance, 1996, 2005.

Friedman, Milton. 2000. “Interview,” Commanding Heights. October 1; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_miltonfriedman.html

States Milton Friedman: “In the middle of a debate on the subject of distribution of income, in which you had people who you would hardly call socialist or egalitarian -- people like Lionel Robbins, like George Stigler, like Frank Knight, like myself -- Mises got up and said, ‘You're all a bunch of socialists,’ and walked right out of the room.”

Rand said of Friedman, and Stigler, 1946: “‘collectivist propaganda’ and ‘the most pernicious thing ever issued by an avowedly conservative organization’” cited in Skousen, Mark. 2001. The Making of Modern Economics. New York: M. E. Sharpe, p. 387; http://books.google.ca/books?id=QV2OJqbt45oC&pg=PA387&lpg=PA387&dq=%22the+most+pernicious+thing+ever+issued+by+an+avowedly+conservative+organization%22&source=web&ots=D-V4j_dhJA&sig=DZYoo1KjulTGviiR7kFGINFrbnY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

Friedman, Milton and George Stigler. 1946. “Roofs or Ceilings?,” September, Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, http://www.fee.org/library/books/Roofs_or_Ceilings.asp; reprinted as Friedman, Milton, and George Stigler. 1981. "Roofs or Ceilings?" in Rent Control: Myths and Realities, Walter E. Block and Edgar Olsen, eds., Vancouver: The Fraser Institute.

Berliner, Michael S., ed. 1995. Letters of Ayn Rand. New York, N.Y.: Dutton

Milton Frieman was no libertarian:

Block, Walter. 1969. “Against the Volunteer Military,” The Libertarian Forum, August 15, p. 4;http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1969/1969_08_15.pdf

Block, Walter. 1999. “The Gold Standard: A Critique of Friedman, Mundell, Hayek, Greenspan,”Managerial Finance, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 15-33; http://giorgio.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Issue&containerId=13529;http://www.mises.org/etexts/goldcritique.pdf

Block, Walter. 2003. "Private property rights, economic freedom, and Professor Coase: A Critique of Friedman, McCloskey, Medema and Zorn," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 26, No. 3, Summer, pp. 923-951;

Block, Walter. 2006. “Milton Friedman, RIP.” November 16.

http://www.mises.org/story/2393; http://blog.freeny.org/?p=818

Block, Walter. 2010. “Is Milton Friedman a libertarian? No.” Laissez-Faire, No. 32, pp. 9-22, March;http://fce.ufm.edu/Publicaciones/LaissezFaire/

Friedman, Milton and Walter E. Block. 2006. “Fanatical, Not Reasonable: A Short Correspondence Between Walter E. Block and Milton Friedman (on Friedrich Hayek).” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer, pp. 61-80; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/20_3/20_3_4.pdf

Long, Roderick T. 2006. “Realism and abstraction in economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman.” The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall, pp. 3–23;http://www.mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae9_3_1.pdf

Marcus, B. K. 2007. “The Tepid Movement Before Mises” April 12; http://www.mises.org/story/2530

Rothbard, Murray N. 2002. “Milton Friedman Unraveled.” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4, Fall, pp. 37-54; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/16_4/16_4_3.pdf

Sennholz Hans F. 2006. “Milton Friedman, 1912-2006,” December 16; http://mises.org/story/2414

Vance, Laurence M. 1996. “Friedman’s Mistake.” The Free Market. Vol. 14, No. 11. November.http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=158&sortorder=articledate

Vance, Laurence. 2005. “The Curse of the Withholding Tax” April 21;

http://www.mises.org/story/1797

anti Hayek:

Block, Walter E. 1996. "Hayek's Road to Serfdom," Journal of Libertarian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, Fall, pp. 327-350, http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/12_2/12_2_6.pdf; reprinted in Ama-gi: Journal of the Hayek Society at the London School of Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 22-25

Friedman, Milton and Walter E. Block. 2006. “Fanatical, Not Reasonable: A Short Correspondence Between Walter E. Block and Milton Friedman (on Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom).” Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer, pp. 61-80; http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/20_3/20_3_4.pdf

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6 comments:

bionic mosquitoSeptember 16, 2015 at 4:33 PM
Regarding Cato (Koch) and Friedman:

http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-20th-centurys-greatest-champion.html

"The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, named in honor of perhaps the greatest champion of liberty in the 20th century, is presented every other year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to advance human freedom."
AnonymousSeptember 16, 2015 at 11:33 PM
Unfortunately, one misses Mises and the other Rand when both are on the list.

All of them are dead, so I assume that precludes Ron. Thus we are down simply to Rothbard. I agree, this is an oversight, but not nearly as large as Rothbard, Mises, Rand, & an undisqualified Paul. On the whole, it's not so terrible a list! What is the problem?
WagsSeptember 16, 2015 at 11:34 PM
Ron Paul definitely. The anarchists are champions of chaos, not liberty.