Each episode of the Mises Daily podcast concludes with the statement, “The Ludwig Von Mises Institute hopes you have enjoyed this Audio Mises Daily…”. It’s important to me that we consistently adhere to the premise that nations, societies, and organizations are not able to act- it’s the people in those groups who act. This idea is at the root of praxeology and therefore at the root of the principles of the Mises Institute.
Perhaps the closing statement should be changed?
What it’s implying is that everyone who makes up the Ludwig von Mises Institute hopes you have enjoyed the Audio Mises Daily. Or, when Nordstroms says, “Nordstroms is committed to customer service,” they don’t mean the physical store, rather all the associates who make up the team.
The Mises Institute webserver became self-aware in 2009.
Organizations cannot act as such, but by affiliating oneself with an organization, there is implicit in your affiliation the support for the actions that its leader may take. So, if the leader in speaking for the organization says that “The Ludwig von Mises Institute hopes you have enjoyed this,” he can do so legitimately. Praxeology does not deny the ability of individuals to act in common, collective purpose, but merely specifies that this common purpose is made up of the actions of individuals.
Talk abou misunderstanding the basics of praxeology…
Well, to be fair, this has nothing to do with praxeology. It has to do with the english language.