Nostr

I couldn't disagree more. Human Action and Man, Economy, and State are absolute bangers.

They are very hard to read if you have a high-time preference. This is probably true of any book 1000 pages long but it’s especially true of Human Action where the arguement is so thorough and slow and deliberate.

Nobody reads Human Action or Man, Economy, and State because they have a high-time preference and they want to personally refute the masters. They read these works to express a low-time preference and gain conviction in a world that is always working to raise time preference.

What exactly do you disagree with?

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Undisciplined 2y ago

I'm mostly just being facetious. I agree with your insight that almost any thorough treatment of a topic will only appeal to those with low time preference.

However, when I read Human Action my reason for doing so was ironically high time preference. Most people were recommending these long reading lists to go through before taking on Human Action and I didn't feel like investing so much time in preamble.