ROTHBARD WASN”T EQUIPPED FOR THE TASK HE CHOSE Rothbard was just not equipped fo

ROTHBARD WASN”T EQUIPPED FOR THE TASK HE CHOSE

Rothbard was just not equipped for the task he chose. As an analyst and historian he was wonderful. As a theorist he was ill equipped.

We have the unfortunate luxury of many terrible philosophical thinkers.

We have a far worse problem of a populace and academy lacking the ability to judge ethical, moral, economic, political, and group evolutionary strategies as the group competitions they are.

Had Rothbard not so seriously damaged Mises contribution – as far off as it was – mises could be a hero. As it is he made mises’ obsessive recalcitrance into a pseudoscience, in turn industrially manufactured and distributed by the Mises institute using the new medium of the web.

If not for their persistent heaping of unworthy praise on a laughable pseudoscience, we could rescue Mises and Rothbard from their errors and instead we could demonstrate how in a century the anarchic research program, Hayek and popper’s information program. Mises in operationalism, Rothbard and Hoppe in strict construction, solved the unsolved problem of social science begun by Aristotle and Bacon.

But we must damn the authors as long as the lunatic fringe maintain their propagandism: destroying the potential their heroes possess in pursuit of undue praise they have not earned except as pseudoscientists.