1. Buchanan's plan to restrict the franchise was derived from 'von' Mises - whose attitude towards those with low ascribed status low was: you are 'inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you'.  

 

2. The Misean branch of the Austrian School of Economics is, at least in part, defined by secessionist aspirations and by a determination to demonstrate the genetic inferiority of non-whites. This reflects the eugenicist background that was - for most people - discredited by the Holocaust. Hitler arrived in Vienna unaffected by anti-Semitism - which he acquired from the culture co-created by prominent anti-Semites and proto Nazis like the von Hayeks. It would be what Hayek called 'symbolic truth'  to refer to the 'Hayekian Holocaust'. Hayek's brother, Heinrich, spent the Third Reich injecting chemicals into freshly-gassed Jews and other concentration camp victims.  Murray Rothbard, Hayek's co-leader of the fourth generation Austrian School, defended the KKK assassin of Medgar Evers (he also celebrated the first bombing of the World Trade Centre).

 

Leeson, R. 2015. Ed. *Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics Hayek a Collaborative Biography Part III Fraud, Fascism and Free Market Religion.* (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).

 

3.  Hayek had a visceral dislike of non-whites (especially the 'negro') and Jews. But 'I just had to restrain myself to get any hearing’. 

 

He was referring to The Road to Serfdom in which he had protested:

When a professional student of social affairs writes a political book, his first duty is plainly to say so. This is a political book … But, whatever the name, the essential point remains that all I shall have to say is derived from certain ultimate values. I hope I have adequately discharged in the book itself a second and no less important duty: to make it clear beyond doubt what these ultimate values are on which the whole argument depends.

There is, however, one thing I would like to add to this. Though this is a political book, I am as certain as anybody can be that the beliefs set out in it are not determined by my personal interests. (2007 [1944], v)

In for-posthumous-general-consumption oral history interviews, Hayek explained what these ‘ultimate values’ were: fraud. The Road to Serfdom, he explained, had been written for personal interests: to allow the ‘old aristocracy’ to resume their ascribed status and to drive the ‘new aristocracy’ - labour trade unionists and elected politicians – back down the road back to serfdom.

Leeson, R. 2015. Interpreting Hayek: Austrian Civilisation and the Neo-Feudal 'Spontaneous' Order.

Chapter 3 of Leeson, R. 2015. Ed. *Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics Hayek a Collaborative Biography Part II Austria America and the Rise of Hitler, 1899-1933*. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
From: Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Richard Ebeling <[log in to unmask]>
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Professor Gaffney,
 
You are joking, of course?

Public Choice theory as a "front" for southern secession and the KKK?

You'll have to partly throw in John-Baptiste Say, Nassau Senior and Vilfredo Pareto, who all formulated elements of Public Choice theory (e.g., the idea of "concentration of benefits and diffusion of burdens" to understand the political biases toward special interest uses of government intervention at the expense of competitors and consumers). 
Don't forget all of Adam Smith's heirs who have emphasized analyzing market and political decision-making on the basis that people act on their defined self-interest. 
Richard Ebeling



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On Dec 16, 2015, at 7:53 PM, Mason Gaffney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Aha!  That fits with my strong impression that the Tullock/Buchanan axis was a revival of Secessionism and the KKK, sanitized as “Public Choice Theory” and dissociated from lynching and all that.

Most of you probably know that Jim Buchanan’s grandfather John had been Governor of Tennessee in the 1890s.  John opposed voting rights for blacks, and supported the use of convict labor.

 

Mason Gaffney

 

From: Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Irwin (Bud) Collier
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 6:06 AM
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Gordon Tullock worked at the University of South Carolina until 1962.

 

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Robert Leeson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


In 1978, Hayek stated

 

I am rather hoping that these ideas are now spreading. Of course, I think the main thing is that there are economists who are working outside their fields, like Jim Buchanan and [the one] in South Carolina, and some of the people working at UCLA. What I said before--that you cannot be a good economist except by being more than an economist-- I think is being recognized by more and more of the economists. This narrow specialization, particularly of the mathematical economists, is, I believe, going out.

 

Hayek plagiarized material from John C. Calhoun: but what in South Carolina is Hayek referring to?   

 

 




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Prof. Irwin Collier, Ph.D.
John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Freie Universität Berlin