Were any of the authors featured at the Misis Institute Christians?
I have noticed that ‘von’ Misis has thrown some stones at Christianity as a whole. I’m not so sure I can take his works seriously given that. So I am looking for alternative authors.
You can’t take his works seriously because he may have been a critic of Christianity at some points?
I wouldn’t base any religious bias towards people who have pioneered liberty like authors of the Austrian School have done. It’s rather a lame reason for not taking someone seriously when their theories will stand the test of time and have proven themselves to be giants in the history of human thought. Rothbard, Mises, and Block are athiest if I’m correct. Hayek and Tucker are Catholic, and Lew Rockwell is Christian (I don’t know what denomination), as for the big authors. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Robert P Murphy is Christian. I actually think the majority of people speaking on the mises youtube channel are christian.
That is correct, unless he retracted his statments.
jasonmchristos, maybe economics isn’t for you…
“I wouldn’t base any religious bias towards people who have pioneered liberty like authors of the Austrian School have done.”
Well I would and that is the point of this thread.
"It’s rather a lame reason for not taking someone seriously when their theories will stand the test of time and have proven themselves to be giants in the history of human thought. "
A theory may or may not ‘stand the test of time’, but will it withstand the tests of Eternity?
“Rothbard, Mises, and Block are athiest if I’m correct. Hayek and Tucker are Catholic, and Lew Rockwell is Christian (I don’t know what denomination), as for the big authors. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.”
Thank you for the list of the authors religios bias, this is what I was asking for.
" Robert P Murphy is Christian. I actually think the majority of people speaking on the mises youtube channel are christian. "
Thank you, I will look over Robert P Murphy’s works.
“jasonmchristos, maybe economics isn’t for you…”
With all due respect for the moderator. If you do not mind I would like to make that decision for myself. Is that ok with you?
You need to know if i am a christian before you can properly weigh my advice… right?
Why is the author’s religion a factor if they’re writing about economics? You’ll never get anywhere if you only read works by Christian authors due to some aversion to a separate religious bias.
While raised Catholic, I believe Hayek became an agnostic later in his life.
Jason, do you suppose there is a Christian theory of the business cycle vs. a non-Christian one?
A faculty spotlight blog entry has just revealed William Anderson to be a christian.
http://blog.mises.org/14592/faculty-spotlight-interview-william-l-anderson/
Personally IDC, I don’t look for those things.
Why?
btw: It’s Mises with an e.
lol at this thread. Nirgraham already said what I wanted to say.
Edit:
There is no such thing as truth contingent upon who said it. Furthermore, I agree with him (and Hazlitt in another book) in that a fundementalist approach to religion, any religion, is socialistic, hence contrary to division of labour.
OP, I can understand your hesitation. I am not sufficiently familiar with Mises’s work to know why he holds a negative view of Christianity. I doubt it has any necessary relation to his economics, though I could be wrong. If it does, the root is probably to be found in his epistemology, which itself is worthy of serious consideration by anyone even remotely interested in economics, imho—regardless of whether an anti-Christian conclusion necessarily stems from it (I, for one, can’t see how this is possible, fwiw.)
@Nielsio Simply because I am a Christian of course.
“Jason, do you suppose there is a Christian theory of the business cycle vs. a non-Christian one?”
That would be for another thread, for now I am just looking for Christian Authors.
“lol at this thread. Nirgraham already said what I wanted to say.”
Is laughing at newbies a hazing thing for all or just Christians?