Was he a AnCap?
No, Misesian Minarchist. Nightwatchman state type.
Austro-libertarian fits. I believe he was a minarchist.
Didn’t want to start a new thread, but does anyone think that Mises (and Hazlitt, Kirzner, etc..) would be AnCap if they had been born in, say, the 1970’s or 1980’s??? Well, I should say born again, because I’m assuming that they’d be able to read their own works, as well as Rothbard, Hoppe, Block, etc…
To me it seems probable that they would since most of today’s preeminent Austrians seem to have arrived at that conclusion. It must have just been too much of a conceptual barrier to break through until post-Rothbard.
“Didn’t want to start a new thread, but does anyone think that Mises (and Hazlitt, Kirzner, etc..) would be AnCap if they had been born in, say, the 1970’s or 1980’s??? Well, I should say born again, because I’m assuming that they’d be able to read their own works, as well as Rothbard, Hoppe, Block, etc…”
I always wondered that too. I would say they would have been AnCaps.
“does anyone think that Mises (and Hazlitt, Kirzner, etc..) would be AnCap if they had been born in, say, the 1970’s or 1980’s???”
Almost certianly, just as Rothbard or Block would have almost certianly been minarchists if they had been born in the 1880’s. Mises however may have stayed a minarchist if he was somehow born in similar conditions (pro-statist aristocracy) as he was in the real world, but it’s still likely he would have been an anarchist, however Hazlitt, Hayek, you bet.