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by brightball 3274 days ago
From what I've read on Mises they are big on numbers, data, citing sources and logic. They don't deserve to be grouped with the others.
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Mises are shills for failed economic theories and peddle dumb conspiracy theories.
You're free to criticize their economics, but their bias for everyday news tends to be more objective than that most others.
Which failed economic theories and failed how exactly?
'Austrian' economics.
Failed how?
Austrian economics is just an outdated theory. Principles of Economics and Das Kapital were written within about four years of each other and while time was poking holes in Communism it was doing the same to Austrian economics. Here's a good argument against the Austrian school if you're really interested.

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm

So Newton's Laws of Motion are just "an outdated theory" because they were published in 1686?

And, I am sorry, but the paper you quote is just pseudo-intellectual drivel. If I could decipher anything from it, it boiled down to "because there is no such thing as perfect free market, therefore Austrian School is flawed".

Or something like that.