John Medaille and others with similar impressions of Mises' research  
methodology may benefit from consulting a standard work in sociology of the  
early 20th century--ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY by Albion W. Small, Chicago:  
University of Chicago Press, 1924.  In it, considerable space is dedicated  
to explaining the early contributions to sociological theory by the Austrian  
Carl Menger.  Mises' work is a direct extension of the foundations laid by  
Menger.  
  
Samuel Bostaph