I earlier posted that the prominent libertarian Howard Buffett, father of one of the world’s richest man, Warren Buffett, wrote the great dean of Austrian economics Murray Rothbard to ask where he could buy the latter's book "The Panic of 1819". That book was intended for his son, Warren.
Unfortunately for dad Howard, son Warren not only turned from a value investor into a political entrepreneur (crony) but embraced a political philosophy that justified his actions, which runs diametrically in contrast with his dad.
Nonetheless, Austrian school professor and economist Mark Thornton fulfills dad Howard’s wish, 51 year after.
Writes Daniel Sanchez at the Mises Blog
Warren Buffett’s father Howard (an anti-New Deal and anti-interventionist Congressman) wrote to Murray Rothbard in 1962 about sending some of Murray’s books to his son. Judging from Warren’s recent comments, it seems the books were lost in the mail. So Mark Thornton has sent this care package to the billionaire investor.
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