| | Neil, thanks for the review. It was very interesting. I haven't had a chance to read my copy of the book yet, but you've piqued my curiosity. Very good presentation, first on the overall purpose of the book, but also some of the highlights. Thank you.
I hate distracting from the rest of the review, but the Marginalia annoys me. I wonder how she would have felt about those being published. The problem with that kind of thing is that it gets your first impressions of the discussion without putting it into the larger context. You get stuck looking at trees before you see the forest. Obviously Mises had some philosophical problems, but if you see through his terminology and get at his wider point, you can see his methodology he puts down for economics makes a lot of sense and is quite compatible with Objectivism. Marginalia gives the impression that Rand had nothing but contempt for Mises, when other sources indicate quite the opposite.
Ed Younkins, congratulations on this book.
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