The Last Knight: Live Bloggers
I'm pleased to announce that two scholars will be live blogging the new bio of Mises: Wladimir Kraus, a PhD student in economics in Germany, and Greg Ransom of the Hayek Center. Both will be reading the book chapter by chapter and blogging their impression here as they go. Both bloggers are interesting cases because neither can be considered orthodox Misesians. Kraus tends toward an objectivist position with more sympathy for the classical school than is usually found among the Rothbard branch of the Misesian school, while Ransom is a Hayekian of the old school. So their impressions will be particularly interesting.
In the meantime, you can buy the book and read along with them or browse the full text here. Meanwhile, I'm reading the book for the first time as a consumer rather than an editor or production critic, so it is completely consuming my evenings. It is not a chore in the slightest bit; it is like reading a great novel, chapter after chapter.
Comments (8)
The pdf has roman enumeration throughout, rather than just in the front-matter.
Published: September 3, 2007 10:17 AM
Anyone know the quickfix? I've bumped up to the limits of my pdfing skill.
Published: September 3, 2007 12:10 PM
To renumber, click the Pages tab in the nav pane on the left and then choose Number Pages from the Options menu there. It's pretty self-explanatory from there. You should be able to number it just like the printed pages.
Published: September 4, 2007 8:23 AM
That's in Acrobat (full version).
Published: September 4, 2007 8:24 AM
Jeff: The links to your email address do not seem to be working. I would like to follow the blog comments on the Mises biography as they are posted, and I suppose it is finally the time to figure out how to use RSS and download a reader/aggregator or whatever. Sometime ago you posted an article on how to do this. Can you provide a link?
Published: September 4, 2007 8:56 AM
On RSS feeds, today there are an infinite number of options, but everyone I know uses Google Reader. Just google that up and follow the instructions. For my part, I'm a bit unorthodox. I use the Firefox RSS pulldown in the toolbar, and have only the number of feeds that fit across the browser. Forces me to economize.
Published: September 4, 2007 9:01 AM
Ok, the paging issue is fixed. Sorry I was too lazy to find the solution myself. At least I know now!
Published: September 4, 2007 9:06 AM
Jeffrey,
If you were to leave Mises, the place would collapse.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Published: September 4, 2007 10:54 AM