Listed here are some fast feedback on Richard Ebeling’s and Geoffrey Lea’s second essays on Austrian economics in South Royalton, Vermont. All the essays could be discovered right here.
First, Richard Ebeling.
Richard tells a hilarious story about touring to South Royalton, VT from Sacramento by bus. Wow! I keep in mind that Harry Watson and I had our air fare paid for, if I recall appropriately. I don’t know why the disparate therapy. The excellent news is that it didn’t appear to negatively have an effect on Richard’s perspective except he was usually even friendlier and extra excited than he appeared.
One in all my favourite components of his second essay is his memory of the late Sudha Shenoy. I keep in mind her effectively. On the age of 23, I had by no means interacted at any size with an Indian lady. I loved her immensely, particularly her infectious chuckle. I really had heard of her well-known father, economist B.R. Shenoy, and I believe I had learn one or two issues he wrote. Once more, if I keep in mind appropriately, he was the primary economist I learn who was important of India’s authorities’s central planning. It’s exhausting to imagine that she died in 2008. It appears rather more latest.
Right here’s a really candy remembrance of Sudha by the late John Blundell.
Second, Geoffrey Lea.
I believe Geoffrey is correct to charitably interpret Milton Friedman’s well-known assertion to the group in South Royalton that there’s no such factor as Austrian economics; there are solely good economics and unhealthy economics. I didn’t take him to imply that the Austrians didn’t have essential insights. I took him to imply that the individuals gathered there shouldn’t let one another get away with incorrect statements or claims simply because they sounded Austrian. And, by the best way, I didn’t see individuals there letting one another get away with such claims.
The pic above is of Sudha. The opposite pic is of my late buddy Harry Watson and his spouse Ida Walters in entrance of the South Royalton resort, the “scene of the crime.” I used to be visiting Harry and Ida in September 2015 in New Hampshire and we drove to the resort to see what it was like. Harry and Ida had met on the convention and received married not lengthy after.
