The Three Phases of New Ideas: Ridicule, Outrage, Obvious

|Peter Boettke|

|Peter Boettke| When a fellow economist labels someone in the field it is usually because it serves as a short-hand for a set of arguments and beliefs, and/or area of orientation.  She is a labor economist, he works in development economics. Those are fields.  But she is an experimentalist, or he does behavioral economics.  Those are paradigmatic expressions.  This is the positive role of labels.

|Peter Boettke| I learned while in graduate school from George Selgin that one should pay attention to what David Glasner has to say.-- even when you disagree.  I am not a monetary theorist, so a detailed response to Glasner will best be done by Horwitz, or Selgin, or White.  But I do think one could generate an interesting discussion.

|Peter Boettke|

Steven Horwitz Thanks to a tip from a libertarian friend, I did a quick search of Anders Behring Breivik's 1500 page manifesto (which you can find here) and he does indeed cite Mises and Hayek in his crazed and offensive ramblings.  In addition, he also references three Mises Daily articles from Mises.org.

Steven Horwitz

|Peter Boettke|

|Peter Boettke|