One of my favorite reads!

Human Action is the great leveler, the long, drawn-out 'Good lord' moment. It would be a great "argument ender" if it weren't so long and dense. Not too long ago I bought about six paperback copies from the Mises Institute with just that in mind. However the very gesture of handing someone a book of that intensity and scope in order to "change their mind" or "finish this argument once and for all" is, I've come to learn, a bit too aggressive and even arrogant. I guess individuals will learn these ideas and these arguments when they're ready, Mises or otherwise.

Mises is perennial.

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Mises!
I am proud of you Sir (or Mam)

My pleasure!

All I know about Harmony is what Tumblr tells me - apparently they spell it that way. I guess because they can avoid spell check lines that way. I guess I see them as siblings more than anything because of the time they spent alone together during DH, without any kind of romance, and because of how Harry told Ron that he saw her as a sister.
Oh, I don't disagree - Draco is super whiny. He's entitled and a brat, and while his struggles are very major in his life, the way he acted was immature. But that's what makes him interesting! I just enjoy delving into the Slytherin perspective of things, since the books were so overwhelmingly Gryffindor-biased and unfair to Slytherin House as a whole. The very recent new information on Draco and the Malfoy family was really interesting to me as a Slytherin apologist. The whole time I was reading I was thinking, People are scrambling to write and rewrite their Dramione and Drarry fics right now.

Ron and Hermione were trying to happen from the beginning; he was just too immature to admit it. They'd suit each other well, imo, as long as you're accepting of regular arguments over nothing. I'm glad they ended up together. Some Dramione fics take advantage of Ron's immaturity and turn him into a very, very bad character, though, which is sad.
Drarry is an acquired taste, probably, but a good one. I think it's the most realistic of all the non-canon ships (definitely more than Dramione, still more than Harmony imo - they were too much like siblings).
Ginny is a bit of a hothead. They didn't do her justice in the films; I think Bonnie Wright was a good enough actress to portray her well, she just wasn't written properly. The Harry/Ginny came out of nowhere in the movies, where there was at least a decent amount of progression in the books.

I'm sorry that I'm writing you a dissertation on Harry Potter pairings, haha.

I actually shipped Harry and Ginny years before Jo wrote it...but I don't love it. I love Ron/Hermione. And if you think about it - especially during HBP - Harry/Draco kind of makes sense. They were obsessed with each other. Draco was pretty much the only one who wasn't impressed or awestruck by Harry. I think they would've made a good match.

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Thank for your additions. You and Traverser do a much better job of quickly and concisely explaining the basic tenets and finer points than I usually do. What irritates me is that the books with all this information on the actual positions of Austrianism are freely available, so any misinformed characterizations and strawmen are a result of pure laziness or disinterest in an informed critique.

Intellectual honesty is rare indeed. I've got a admitted socialist professor friend who manages to actually be intellectually honest. We are able to engage in rational discourse even though our conclusions often differ, admitting points made on either side of an argument, and agreeing to disagree when we see things differently, and still able to proceed with the discourse. I don't know why it's so difficult for so many to take that route. We don't have to agree to get along. What we can't do is substitute violence for discourse. That is the entire political apparatus in the world, including voting.

It is evidenced that the terms are not interchangeable; theories of economy do not explain all social behavior that we can observe. For example, the behavior of crowds during a riot, which differs from the behavior of isolated individuals during a riot, consists of non-economic social mechanics.

It usually is a lonely battle. Too many emotional reactionaries operating under the limited public paradigm.

I'll be sure to read that, eventhough it is quite long for me. THanks.

The set of all economic consequences is an element of the set of all social consequences. The two sets are not equivalent; economics is not a complete social model.

Thanks. I'll try to read about/from him, but I suck at reading stuff even if I find it highly interesting.

If memory serves, it's rather like Freakonomics. But fascinating nonetheless! It was mostly a re-hashing for me, as he covers the same topics in his lectures, but he's amazing at uncovering the economics of daily life. And it often pisses off sensitive groups...that book sparked campus-wide protests against him.

Hahahaha To supplement your Human Action reading