My Power and Market article was published at Mises.org today:
No Mises Bust at the University of Vienna
Power & Market Stephan Kinsella
This past summer I joined my son in Vienna. He was there on a fellowship from his senior year at Carleton College to study architecture, in particular the work of Otto Wagner, the Secession movement, and so on. I had only been there once before, when backpacking during law school. I accompanied him on his explorations and we feasted on Viennese cuisine at places recommended by local friends.
I suggested that we take time to visit the University of Vienna, so that I could see the monuments to famous Austrian economists who had taught there.1 The lobby highlights Nobel prize winners, including Friedrich von Hayek; and in the “Colonnade,” or “arcade courtyard” (Arkadenhof, also locally referred to as the aula), there are dozens of monuments—busts, bas-relief plaques—dedicated to noted intellectuals, alumni, and professors from the University. Of particular interest to devotees of Austrian economics, there are monuments to Carl Menger2 and his two students Friedrich von Wieser and Eugen von Böhm-Bahwerk, all located near each other in the Arcade Courtyard.
You must log in to post a comment. Log in now.