Hayek and Mises in "consumer-driven" education.

Economics Economics Questions
1

I did not hear about Hayek or Mises in my academic career until I took an elective course in “Firm Organization” from the only Austrian leaning professor I encountered in graduate school. I tried to remedy the situation for my undergrads by teaching one lecture on the Socialist Calculation Debate, and doing so I was seen as an “oddball”.

However, in “consumer-driven” educational products, particularly in lectures from The Teaching Company, I see individual lectures dedicated to Hayek (and mentioning Mises) all the time, and not just in economics. I am now listening to a lecture series titled “Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition” which dedicates one of its 84 lectures to Hayek.

Why is there a total absence of Hayek in Universities, but such a presence in “consumer-driven” education?

2

Because state education is not about giving the consumer what he is interested in knowing, but rather what the “intellectual bodyguard” is interested in you knowing.

3

You have a very sad understanding of state education.

4

three cheers for constructive criticism.

hip hip, hooray.

5

Enlighten us, please.