{"id":51,"date":"2007-08-31T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T18:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/archives\/51"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:21:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T17:21:29","slug":"von-mises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/von-mises\/","title":{"rendered":"von Mises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\/article.aspx?Id=2655\"><!--more-->The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">By Ludwig von Mises\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Ludwig von Mises (1881\u20131973) was dean of the Austrian School. From an essay first published in 1969, it was one of the last pieces Mises wrote.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Excerpt<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Today, all over the world, but first of all in the United States, hosts of statisticians are busy in institutes devoted to what people believe is &#8220;economic research.&#8221; They collect figures provided by governments and various business units, rearrange, readjust, and reprint them, compute averages and draw charts. They surmise that they are thereby &#8220;measuring&#8221; mankind&#8217;s &#8220;behavior&#8221; and that there is no difference worth mentioning between their methods of investigation and those applied in the laboratories of physical, chemical, and biological research. [<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\/story\/#note5\"><font color=\"#191970\">\u2026<\/font><\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>And they are fully convinced that out of their restless exertion there will one day emerge final and complete knowledge that will enable the planning authority of the future to make all people perfectly happy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Are we having fun yet?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}