My Years with Ludwig von Mises.pdf - The Ludwig von Mises Institute

Action, I read every other book of Lu's that I could get my hands on.
Those that I could not buy, I borrowed. Shameful as it is for me to
say so, I think I even stole one-that is to say I never returned it to the
person from whom I had borrowed it.
Lu was on excellent terms with Syl, and on February 26, 1957,
Lu-to the excitement of the class-substituted for Syl in the Law
School when Syl was on another important assignment.
Another example of Lu's influence is Anthony Fisher, who
founded institutes for economic research in London, Vancouver,
B.C., Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and, recently, in New York. "All
my efforts," he once wrote me, "originally stem from Lu's teachings,
writings and activities. Ideas have consequences."
It would not have been astonishing-with all the admiration and
the many honors he received in the course of time-if Lu had
changed. But he never did. He stayed as simple and humble as he
was when I first met him. One day I told him: "You pay so little
attention to human beings, it is only history that really interests
you." "How wrong you are," he answered. "Your presence means
much more to me than any event in the past." Yes, he did love me.
Human Action and The Anti-Capialistic Mentality were translated
into Spanish by Joaquin Reig, a lawyer who lives in Madrid.
As soon as Reig read a Hazlitt article about Human Action in
Newsweek, he got in touch with Lu and met him personally for the
first time at the Mont Pelerin meeting in Kassel, Germany. From
that day on a warm friendship developed, based on fealty to the
same ideals.
In Stresa, during the 1965 Mont Pelerin meeting, Reig once
spoke to Lu about monopoly and Ro'thbard's Man, Economy and
State, which had been published in 1962. Reig directed Lu's attention
to the fact that Rothbard, one of Lu's most able and admiring
pupils, did not completely agree with Lu's analysis of monopoly.
Lu replied: "I would subscribe to every word Rothbard has written
in his study."
About this Reig told me: "That was such a generous statement of
Ludwig von Mises, to say that one of his own students had exposed
one of his own ideas better than he himself had been able to
do it, that my admiration for this man jumped sky-high."
Rothbard became the leader of many young American followers
of the Austrian School. Men like Jean Pierre Hamilius (Luxembourg),
one of the ablest defenders of Lu's teachings and editor of
the Mont Pelerin Quarterly, Toshio Murata (Japan), Walter E.
Grinder (U.S.), and George Roche (U.S.) are other notable adherents
of the Austrian School.
In addition to our four trips to Mexico and our flight to Peru, we
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