That’s my econ dept colleague Bill Barnett, seated on the left of Ron, me on the right, and my other two econ dept colleagues standing, Dan D’Amico on the left, and John Levendis on the right.

There is a flash above Ron, about 3 feet. But, if you look closely, you’ll see a faint halo, right on top of Ron’s head.

Dr Block,

A great photo of Rep. Paul–St Paul!–your Loyola colleagues, and yourself.

While in the ‘wet Tory’ tradition, I’m always interested in Ron Paul’s interpretation of events and his economic analysis; at the very least, it keeps my Tory instincts sharp and I never fail to learn something new.

And, of course, what can be said of Paul can also be said of Block… while not hazarding to assign a ranking of apostleship status, it may be better to consider this a partial meeting of the Mises-Rothbard Round Table.

Carleton University

“do you give all your symposiums in liquor stores?”

I’ll answer for Walter and say yes.

Those laughs have to do with the location, I would bet.

Do any of you at the Mises institute ever go around to Public High Schools in the United States and give lectures on economics, or offer free summer classes for students. Has any research been done on exactly what type of economic studies they are teaching in most Public Schools?

Deb Walker,

I was in high school a year and a half ago and I can attest that the public education system, at least in California, is based around the Monetarist/Keynesian model. The text book has no references to the Austrian School. Even F.A. Hayek, the Nobel prize winner, was not mentioned even once. I cannot say what the teachers themselves taught, as I simply challenged the class and took the final straight away. I did look through the glossary of the text book used for any names, places, events, and concepts that Austrians find significant and found it very wanting. I hope that helps.

Telpeurion Thank you for your response. My guess is that the Monetarist/Keynesian is the model being taught in most schools. Nice to know that you have challenged the class. I hope many other students follow the same path you have. I am not even sure if there is a hight rate of interest on economic studies. Good luck with your future. Who knows maybe I will be reading a book on economic studies written by you one day
” Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.” Ludwig von Mises

Dr. Block, how does Dr. Paul feel about you being for abolishing the state?

Deb Walker …if you want to find where keynesian seeds are planted in schools look in the history books and history lesson plans of schools.i had his ideas taught to me in my history class on the great depression and social studies to(pure statist propaganda dont know if the usa has a equivalent ?)my economics teacher was a anti immigration pro keynes politician dont think his ramblings were the norm.

s burgess
I am going to try my best to research exactly what are in these schools history books and lesson plans. It’s not going to be easy. It’s not like I can Google a certain high school and request what books lesson plans they are using. Makes me wonder if perhaps the Public school system is acting like the Dept. of dirty tricks, and not making it easy for anyone to make any rational assessment on what the hell they are doing.
A typical propaganda method, keep the masses confused.