Hey, there. I found out about this site a while back but just recently decided to sign up for the forum. I stop by the website from time to time to read an interesting article or listen to an audio presentation or whatever.
I ain’t an economics major or anything, i just like learning about economics in my spare time. Somewhere along the lines, I think in one of my meeting with the meetup group I’m in, i heard the name “Milton Friedman” and so saw a bunch of vids with him in them on the internet. I liked it, started learning more about economics and also found out I was a libertarian (though I had a bunch of lefty tendencies at first, lol…but basically i was naturally liberty-minded and the more I learned about the practical side of economic freedom, the more I began to fall more in line with my natural beliefs. See, before, I had thought that economic freedom had to be rejected for pragmatic reasons since that’s basically what I heard all my life, but then found out it was complete nonsense).
Well anyways, I am a fan of Milton Friedman (don’t hold it against me, lol, I know lots of Austrians aren’t fans of him or the Chicago school) and so I even bought a shirt that says “Friedman is my homeboy” which is pictured in my avatar. However, I also side with Austrian economics on a lot…probably just about everything now that i think of it, but might lean towards some of Friedman’s suggested policies being put in place as interim steps so that people could see that economic freedom works and then go even further and get closer to laissez faire.
I’ve only read one Rothbard book , What Has Government Done to Our Money? and found it to be awesome. I got started reading some books but haven’t finished any of them, lol. I needed to discuss two of them for some meetings with the meetup group but only read like half through each. I’ve learned a lot by watching vids on the misesmedia channel on Youtube. Anyways, about the books, I’m reading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, then I’m gonna finish Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, and then gonna finish The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek.
I figured I’d sign up to learn more about Austrian economics when I had a question about something. I plan on reading more books and watching more vids as well. I really like a lotta the vids. I think they’re really interesting and I like the ones that have question & answer parts as well. Anyways, some books I wanna get to reading sometime from the Austrian school are America’s Great Depression, Socialism, Human Action, and Man, Economy, and State.