How intriguing. I happen to know all of these people except Joe Salerno and the new executive director and directrix. In particular, I enjoyed correspondence with your dad for many years and we had a really great meal together at Doug Casey's Eris Society event in 2005 along with Marc Victor and several others. I have met and spoken at length with Doug French, Jeff Deist, Karen deCoster, and have briefly met and listened to Tom diLorenzo. I met Guido and Hans in 2000 at the world congress of the International Society for Individual Liberty and met with Hans and Ralph Raico at the "Against Leviathan" conference in Milan, Italy later that same year. We had a nice supper together.
One of the stand out features of this controversy to me is the fact that Karen was chief financial officer. She was, as Guido and Hans point out, fired. Generally when that kind of thing happens, and when someone elderly and infirm is being "encouraged" to take choices favouring certain insiders, there is generally some financial chicanery at the bottom of things. I have done quite a lot of forensic accounting, professionally. I'd be happy to help follow up if an investigation is forthcoming.
Yes, by someone at some time. Perhaps some of the major donors would respond to an appeal from Hans and Guido to pursue such an investigation. That seems to be the general tenor of the letter Hans has published. Which, by the way, thank you for linking to, now there's a whole 'nother site I get to read and book mark and visit again and again...
I had no idea. I wonder if Tom Woods has thoughts. He’ll keep them close the vest, but I imagine he has some insight. Losing Jeff Deist and then Tom DiLorenzo is disturbing.
Hoppe, as you probably know, was stripped of his fellowship for criticizing the Mises Institute. The whole fiasco revolves around the institute becoming an outlet for pro-Milei propaganda, with Hoppe and other critics noting Milei is hardly a libertarian and isn't implementing Austrian economic policies in Argentina.
I had no idea. My late father guided so many people to Mises site until his dying day. He would be very upset. Old enough to have had two prominent Austrian School economists as my undergraduate professors. While it made the PhD program at a certain poison Ivy untenable, it has informed my life. Hope this can be resolved.
I served six years on the board for a small private school. No school employees were allowed to be voting members of the board, and we had to keep the number of parents of currently enrolled students to less than half of the voting membership to avoid conflicts of interest. The board could weigh in on general governance, but couldn't interfere with day-to-day operations of the school. If any parents approached us in an attempt to go over a teacher or administrator's head, we always deflected the complaint and directed the person to the school principal and other pertinent employees.
How intriguing. I happen to know all of these people except Joe Salerno and the new executive director and directrix. In particular, I enjoyed correspondence with your dad for many years and we had a really great meal together at Doug Casey's Eris Society event in 2005 along with Marc Victor and several others. I have met and spoken at length with Doug French, Jeff Deist, Karen deCoster, and have briefly met and listened to Tom diLorenzo. I met Guido and Hans in 2000 at the world congress of the International Society for Individual Liberty and met with Hans and Ralph Raico at the "Against Leviathan" conference in Milan, Italy later that same year. We had a nice supper together.
One of the stand out features of this controversy to me is the fact that Karen was chief financial officer. She was, as Guido and Hans point out, fired. Generally when that kind of thing happens, and when someone elderly and infirm is being "encouraged" to take choices favouring certain insiders, there is generally some financial chicanery at the bottom of things. I have done quite a lot of forensic accounting, professionally. I'd be happy to help follow up if an investigation is forthcoming.
Hopefully there will be an investigation.
Yes, by someone at some time. Perhaps some of the major donors would respond to an appeal from Hans and Guido to pursue such an investigation. That seems to be the general tenor of the letter Hans has published. Which, by the way, thank you for linking to, now there's a whole 'nother site I get to read and book mark and visit again and again...
LOL. You're very welcome!
I had no idea. I wonder if Tom Woods has thoughts. He’ll keep them close the vest, but I imagine he has some insight. Losing Jeff Deist and then Tom DiLorenzo is disturbing.
Hoppe, as you probably know, was stripped of his fellowship for criticizing the Mises Institute. The whole fiasco revolves around the institute becoming an outlet for pro-Milei propaganda, with Hoppe and other critics noting Milei is hardly a libertarian and isn't implementing Austrian economic policies in Argentina.
Yes, I saw. That was astonishing!
I had no idea. My late father guided so many people to Mises site until his dying day. He would be very upset. Old enough to have had two prominent Austrian School economists as my undergraduate professors. While it made the PhD program at a certain poison Ivy untenable, it has informed my life. Hope this can be resolved.
I hope so too.
A mind sufficiently stretched will not return to is original state.
I served six years on the board for a small private school. No school employees were allowed to be voting members of the board, and we had to keep the number of parents of currently enrolled students to less than half of the voting membership to avoid conflicts of interest. The board could weigh in on general governance, but couldn't interfere with day-to-day operations of the school. If any parents approached us in an attempt to go over a teacher or administrator's head, we always deflected the complaint and directed the person to the school principal and other pertinent employees.
Boards aren't supposed to be running things!
Interesting analysis. Hope it works itself out.
I read HHH piece yesterday and felt like Mises might be compromised and not lasting for the long term.
There is an easy fix, should the Board choose to employ it.