> >What is at issue here is the tendency of some to bash >scholars about whom they know very little. I have >heard some scholars bash Mises and Hayek in ways that >make absolutely no sense. For example, at the HES last >summer someone mirespresented Hayek by claiming that >the Road to Serfdom argued that any small step towards >intervention would lead to a Hitlerean society. I >confronted this person afterwards, and he admitted >that he really did not know much about the RTS. > Hayek does buy the dreadful Misesian cumulative 'logic of intervention' argument though right? "It is not necessary to review the familiar economic arguments which show why mere 'interventionism' is self-defeating and self-contradictory, and how, if the central purpose of intervention is to be achieved, intervention must expand until it becomes a comprehensive system of planning" (Hayek [1939] 1997, pp.199-200). Andrew Farrant