How old are you and at what age did you finally associate yourself with Austrian economics. Just curious about the age demographics of this forum relative to mine.
Personally, I’m 22 and only about a year ago I started reading and participating in this community. Ron Paul’s presidential run was what initially sparked my interest in economics and then subsequent interest in Milton Friedman eventually led me here.
I’m 19. I originally became interested in AE about two years ago with RP’s presidential run.
I’m 18. I was never very politically active until the beginning of 2008 (sophomore year in high school, about 15-16 years old). I became interested in Ron Paul’s run for president, and in the early months of 2008 I was referred to lewrockwell.com by a former friend (who has now turned into some sort of Stalinist). From there I learned of mises.org and the rest speaks for itself.
25 here. It was a long path buy I guess it was also Ron Paul’s campaign that brought me here in a roundabout manner. Although I didn’t actually support him in 2008, I was still a “social liberal, fiscal conservative”. Changed quite a bit since then.
23 soon to be 24. I feel much older. I look a bit younger.
I’m 28 and (obviously) new around here. The first time I heard of AE was last summer when I read Robert Murphy’s Politically Incorrect Guide to The Great Depression and The New Deal. I ended up reading The Road to Serfdom, The Theory of Money and Credit, America’s Great Depression, and Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson. I’m glad I found this site because I know exactly 0 people who are interested in this.
18, and have only know about this for 1 yr (seems lots are only 1-2 yrs) and the ironic part is the mandatory economics class I had to take, of course I went AP so i wouldnt have to spend money on gen-ed classes in college, lead me, against the teacher’s wishes, and vehelment protests to AE, much to my teacher’s displeasure, as if I hadn’t passed the AP exam, he wouldn’t get a $50 kickback from the county for each passed test. Only thing is that the macro test blemished my record, 4 instead of making everything perfect 5s.
22, I turned an ‘austrian’ at roughly 19.
19, turned libertarian and soon thereafter austrian at the age of 18. My really short journey began by reading David Friedman’s “Hidden Order”.
Eighteen. Part of my journey(Which I omitted in another thread) involved a troll posting about macroeconomics(The horror!) on a site with, shall we say…risque material, which somehow got me interested in economics and picking up the Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism. And then a conservative poster elsewhere who first got me on the path of neocon/paleocon(I think he was one of these)/minarchist libertarian/ancap.
Probably 2-3 years post-undergrad I embraced Austrian economics—maybe 10 years ago.
For your kind information, I am 22 years old and is doing a private job.
I’m 29 (almost 30!). i remember being perpetually the youngest in class or my group of friends. now it’s the opposite, it seems :-).
I was first introduced to Austrian theory after reading “Economics in one lesson” by hazlitt about a year or two ago; that was after getting a B.A and MA in economics and still not feeling like i know what was going on. Sad how I spent 150k in formal education and got less in terms of knowledge and understanding of the economy than one book. So, yeah, i’ve been focusing on learning Austrian theory more ever since 
Wow. I guess I’m pretty old at 35. Taught history and economics in the public schools until I went straight.
MPP:
…still not feeling like i know what was going on…
This is exactly how I felt—looking so hard, but seeing only shadows (as in Plato’s analogy). By contrast, Austrian economics seems like the sunlight itself.
23 very soon to be 24. I sort of came across the ideas 3 years ago or so, but didn’t really get ‘serious’ about it until 11 months ago.
I’m 24, been pro business all my life, turned libertarian in college by elimination (a Keynes did not make much sense), turned ancap by elimination few year ago as I had to admit ancaps won the discussion I read on this board, have been slowly building my austrian foundation up ever since.