Mark,
I wouldn’t be surprised if a “revisionist” Austrian historian could find a large number of discoveries in the history of economic thought relating to Austrian theory. Lately, I’ve been reading a number of Thomas Nixon Carver’s writings and have come across a number of surprises.

Often tagged, like William Graham Sumner, as a “social darwinist”, he was known as “Mr. Capitalism” at Harvard where he taught for many years. He has a lot of good insights on entrepreneurship and advertising in his works, much akin to Austrian theory, and well read on the French liberal economists (he introduced Leonard Read to Frederick Bastiat’s writings, for example).

He was not always consistent and there are a number of matters which I would dispute, but I don’t know of any biographical works on him, save for his own, “Religion Worth Having”, which is a shame. His career is worth investigating.

Just a thought.
Just Ken
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