Anyone who takes David Gordon’s online course, Freedom Versus Authority: Europe 1789-1945, is in for a treat, as you can tell from this talk he gave in Newport Beach last November. I recently took a trip to Best Buy with Dr. Gordon to help him pick out a webcam for the course, and he regaled me with scholarly jokes the whole time. I was laughing the whole time; it was quite an experience! When recalling a quip said by F.A. Hayek during a course that he took with him at UCLA, Dr. Gordon busted out an amazing Hayek impersonation: a perfect blend of Vienna Austrian and London English!
Also, it is well known in Austrian circles what a great mind, Dr. Gordon has. He’s read everything: history, economics, philosophy… And he remembers everything too; he can deliver a full lecture series with no notes… all from memory. And after Murray Rothbard first met him, he (Rothbard) told another friend something to the effect that he had just met a universal genius. After that, they were lifelong friends.
Won’t you take advantage of this splendid opportunity to take an online 9-week course with David Gordon this fall on the history of Europe from the French Revolution through World War II?
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I would love to take it. But as I have already graduated and started working in California, the timing of all the online courses are as far as I know impossible for me to take(I could of course watch the videos after the live session, but that is far inferior an option for me).
There are technical reasons for the meltdown caused by Keynesianism but philosophically there is no moral authority for any and all economic interventionism. That is the ideological change that goes hand in hand with the exposure of empiricism and Keynesianism as fallacious. That is the ideological change that lays the foundation for the future classical liberalism societies.
Bruce, might does indeed, make right.
Telpeurion,
I am unsure what you mean.
“It’s not the shortest book in the world; that would be ‘Our Duties To Others’ by Ayn Rand.”
lol
Are the lectures available as audio MP3 files?
I would love to see these lectures transcribed.
I think that Peter Schiff’s book – Crash Proof – also deserves an honorary mention.
Holy cow, what a great, subtle, sense of humor. No one in the audience got his second Krugman joke: “Krugman (a “quantum economist” as per Gordon’s first joke, which a few in the audience did get) has written a number of books that fill a much-needed gap in the literature.” Hilarious, If it takes me a year I’ll work that one into a comment on a Krugman blog. I’m currently taking Dr. Gordon’s Mises.org “Introduction to Logic.” His lectures are well worth the price and his jokes, though sparing, are the frosting on the cake.
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