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- noun A person who substantially agrees with the
economic analyses of Ludwig von Mises.
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Human actors enter the political arena because they believe it can remove a kind of Misesian "felt uneasiness" but of a collective sort.
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Well, Hayek supported some social safety nets, including famously, national health insurance, much to the disgust of harder line Misesian libertarians.
Liberaltarians?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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David Friedman offered a more utilitarian-sounding version of this approach, shorn of Misesian influence.
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Culture of Congestion, the urban anti-planning blog of Misesian anarcho-capitalist Sanford Ikeda was certainly the best part of The Sun, but there is no reason why Ikeda cannot continue his blogging pursuits elsewhere, without the patronage of the neocons.
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I tend to strongly lean towards Misesian methodology and epistemology in economics, though I don't consider myself a 'libertarian'.
Strands of Libertarianism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"Indeed, the Misesian explanation is so compelling that more and more economists and financial analysts are being persuaded."
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The gist was pretty much the Misesian critique of state-socialist central planning applied to social anarchist “economics” to argue that even a central planning agency staffed by elected facilitators will just end up evolving into a permanent staff of technocrats and inevitably ossify into a de facto Gosplan bureaucracy, and hence statism.
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Given his Misesian view of inflation, it is not surprising that he has a Rothbardian take on the Great Depression.
Ludwig von Bernanke, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But the truth is that the Jeffersonian-Misesian-Hayekian-Rothbardian critique of the state applies in both cases.
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Harford's The Logic of Life is actually the sort of work that those schooled in Misesian and Hayekian economics can be, and should be writing.
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