Sunday, January 13, 2008

Open Letter to Mises Institute Adjunct Faculty Members

I was disappointed to see that the people below are adjunct faculty members at Lew Rockwell's Mises Institute.

No one can gainsay Ludwig von Mises' contributions to social science. He was, perhaps, the most important economist of the 20th century, a man whose contributions have been undervalued and even neglected by the mainstream profession. It is important that his work and contributions are not lost to history.

Indeed, it's fitting that an institution exists to honor Mises and educate new generations of economists about his work.

Unfortunately, that institution is presided over by Lew Rockwell, which brings me to the reason for my post:

You may have been following the news that in the 1980s and 90s Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul put his name to a series of newsletters. Those newsletters were unearthed last week by The New Republic in a detailed article available here. Whatever The New Republic's deficiencies as a publication, in this instance it appears to have given an accurate depiction of the newsletters' contents. In fact, copies of some of the newsletter have been reproduced here. I've reproduced some of the excerpts at the end of this post.

Ron Paul insists that the newsletters were written by others whom he refuses to name. Reports suggest that an aide who remains close to Paul is responsible for at least some of the comments about blacks and gays in the newsletters. Rumors on the internet suggest that that man is Lew Rockwell. Indeed, Ron Paul's former congressional chief of staff has called upon Rockwell to admit responsibility for the bigoted comments.

I make no claim to know whether Rockwell, a former chief of staff to and close associate of Ron Paul, is responsible for the content. And were this the first time Rockwell's name was linked to vile material, I would not take the time to post this note.

But Rockwell has trafficked in code words and racialist rhetoric in the past. In 1991, at the same time Ron Paul's newsletters were in print, Rockwell, in his capacity as president of the Mises Institute, wrote a letter to the L.A. Times defending the beating of Rodney King suggesting that "Liberals talk about banning guns. As a libertarian, I can't agree. I am, however, beginning to wonder about video cameras."

Anyone who had the chance to read The Rockwell Rothbard Report of the late 80s and early 90s would've read similar wink-wink rhetoric about blacks and other groups.

Others who have written for Lew Rockwell's website www.lewrockwell.com or spoken at Lew Rockwell's Mises Institute have dispensed with the winking. There's the white nationalist Samuel Francis who spent years as editor of the Informer, the publication of the Council of Concerned Citizens, the middle class' answer to the KKK.

There's Joseph Sobran, another writer who has appeared on lewrockwell.com and spoken at Lew Rockwell's Mises Institute, who has written: “Most gentiles respect Jews for their intelligence and ability, but they have also come to take certain kinds of Jewish misbehavior for granted. Israeli racial supremacism is assumed as inseparable from “Israel’s right to exist”; loose Jewish charges of anti-Semitism, especially against Christians, are likewise so predictable as to cause little surprise or outrage. In public life, at least, the Tribe has embraced this baneful form of “minority” status and the implicit contempt that goes with giving up hope of normal civility. As with other “minorities,” the Christian habit with the Tribe is simply to pretend not to notice obvious and distressing things. This, we assume, is just their nature; they aren’t going to change; maybe they can’t help being this way. ”

There’s Jared Taylor, another writer who has sometimes made an appearance on lewrockwell.com, who is publisher/editor of the white nationalist periodical American Renaissance.

I could go on – the snide remarks about Rosa Parks on lewrockwell.com upon her passing, for instance, or the reports of shameful and vile public and private comments at various Mises Institute conferences – but I think you get the point.

I understand that no individual fully subscribes to the views expressed by any organization. That’s the nature of institutions. I understand that the people listed below may fully agree with everything written above, or none of it. I understand that they may have, in fact, spoken just once at Lew Rockwell's Mises Institute and thereby earned the designation “adjunct faculty”.

Indeed, they may have been unaware until now of who else has been associated with the Mises Institute or Lew Rockwell and what else they have been writing. Having been informed, they may not mind much what has been written or who has written it.

I do hope they will reflect upon the kind of people with whom Lew Rockwell and the Mises Institute have brought them in connection. I’ve posted this open letter at misesadjunct.blogspot.com in the hopes of shining some sunlight on the people who have been associated with Lew Rockwell and/or the Mises Institute.

Sunlight is, after all, a pretty good disinfectant.

I know this at least. Ludwig von Mises was a champion of individual liberty, and a man who deserved a lot better than having Lew Rockwell sully his good name these past 25 years.

Mises Institute Adjunct Faculty

The following faculty members are listed as adjunct faculty members at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

If anyone listed here is listed in error, please email me at nlevyaz@gmail.com to have his name removed. Similarly, if anyone believes the views of the Mises Institute or its members have been mischaracterized below, please email at the above address.

Adams, Charles - Williamsville, New York cwadams@nexicom.net
Allen, Ward - Auburn University
Anderson, Martin - Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Anderson, Robert G.- Sheridan, Wyoming rga@cyberhighway.net
Anderson, William L.- Frostburg State University banderson@mail.frostburg.edu
Armentano, Dominick - University of Hartford ArmentaD@irene.net
Arnold, Roger - California State University, San Marcos
Arthur, Terry - Institute of Actuaries/Institute of Economic Affairs terry@tgarthur.co.uk
Barnett, Andy - Auburn University abarnett@business.auburn.edu
Barnett, William - Loyola University wbarnett@loyno.edu
Barry, Norman - University of Buckingham, UK norman.barry@buckingham.ac.uk
Barth, James - Auburn University barthjr@mail.auburn.edu
Bartlett, Bruce - National Center for Policy Analysis 73440.3456@compuserve.com
Bassani, Marco - University of Milan; Mises Institute Bassani@mises.org
Batemarco, Robert Ziment - robert.batemarco@ziment.com
Becker, Joseph - Washington, D.C. jbecker@mountainstateslegal.com
Bellante, Donald - University of South Florida DBellant@coba.usf.edu
Bennett, James T. - George Mason University jbennett@gmu.edu
Benson, Bruce - Florida State University bbenson@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Bernardini, Paolo - Boston University pb@bu.edu
Bittlingmayer, George - University of Kansas bittlingmayer@ku.edu
Bjornsson, Olafur - University of Iceland

Bostaph, Samuel - University of Dallas bostaph@acad.udallas.edu
Bouillon, Hardy - Centre for the New Europe hardy.bouillon@cne-network.org
Boykin, Scott - Birmingham, Alabama sboykin11@yahoo.com
Bracewell-Milnes, J.B. - Surrey, England
Bramoullé, Gérard - Université de Droit, d'Economie et des Sciences d'Aix-Marseille g.bramoulle@wanadoo.fr
Brandly, Mark - Ferris State University brandlym@ferris.edu
Bratland, John - Department of the Interior john.bratland@mms.gov
Brown, Harold - Reformed Theological Seminary
Brown, Pamela - California State University, Northridge
Brzeski, Andrzej - University of California, Davis
Burton, David R. - The Argus Group drbargus@aol.com
Burton, John - Birmingham Business School, England
Calcagno, Peter - College of Charleston calcagnop@cofc.edu
Callahan, Eugene - London School of Economics mengermiseshayek@yahoo.com
Calzada, Gabriel - Rey Juan Carlos University gcalzada@juandemariana.org
Campan, Gaël - University of Paris gaeljeancampan@hotmail.com
Cantor, Paul - University of Virginia pac2j@virginia.edu
Carilli, Anthony - Hampden-Sydney College tcarilli@hsc.edu
Carlson, Allan - The Howard Center
Cleveland, Paul - Birmingham-Southern College pclevela@bsc.edu
Cochran, John P. - Metropolitan State College of Denver cochranj@mscd.edu
Colombatto, Enrico - Universita' di Torino enrico.colombatto@unito.it
Comanescu, Dan - Cristian University of Bucharest Cristian@MisesRomania.org
Conway, David - Middlesex University, UK D.Conway@mdx.ac.uk
Cordato, Roy E. - The John Locke Foundation rcordato@johnlocke.org
Cox, Jim Georgia Perimeter College jcox@gpc.edu
Coyne, Christopher Hampden-Sydney College ccoyne@hsc.edu
Cubeddu, Raimondo University of Pisa rcubeddu@dsp.unipi.it
Currier, Elizabeth Committee for Monetary Research and Education
Cuzan, Alfred G. University of West Florida
Cwik, Paul Mount Olive College pcwik@moc.edu
Dalton, Allen Boise State University allendalton@boisestate.edu
Dempster, Gregory Hampden-Sydney College gregoryd@tiger.sdc.edu
Denson, John V. The Mises Institute
DeRosa, Marshall Florida Atlantic University derosa@fau.edu
Desrochers, Pierre Univeristy of Toronto pierre.desrochers@utoronto.ca
Devanny, John South Carolina Governer's School
Duhaime, Eric National School of Public Administration, Canada
Ebeling, Richard Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) REbeling@fee.org
Egger, John Towson State University jegger@towson.edu
Ekelund, Robert B. Auburn University rekelund@business.auburn.edu
Epstein, Gene Barron's gene.epstein@barrons.com
Eshelman, Larry J. Ossining, New York
Fand, David George Mason University dfand@gmu.edu
Fernandez-Morera, Dario Northwestern University voltaire@nwu.edu
Fleming, Thomas Rockford Institute rkfdinst@bossnt.com
Flew, Antony G.N. University of Reading, England (emeritus)
Foss, Nicholai Juul Copenhagen Business School njf.ivs@mail.cbs.dk
Gallaway, Lowell Ohio University
Gamble, Richard Palm Beach Atlantic College richard_gamble@pba.edu
Garrison, Roger Auburn University rgarrisn@business.auburn.edu
Glahe, Fred R. University of Colorado fred.glahe@colorado.edu
Goldberg, Steven City University of New York
Gottfried, Paul Elizabethtown College gottfrpe@acad.etown.edu
Greaves, Bettina Bien Foundation for Economic Education Bbgreaves@aol.com
Habermann, Gerd Unternehmer Institute, Germany losehand@asu.de
Habsburg, Otto von Schlarbaum Laureate
Habsburg-Lothringen, Karl von Pocking, Germany
Halbrook, Stephen P. Fairfax, Virginia
Hamowy, Ronald University of Alberta, Emeritus rhamowy@md.prestige.net
Hanke, Steve Johns Hopkins University hanke@jhu.edu
Harris of High Cross, Lord Institute of Economic Affairs, London
Harriss, Lowell Columbia University
Hebert, Robert F. University of Louisiana - Lafayette rfh9914@louisiana.edu
Higgs, Robert Independent Review rhiggs@independent.org
Hoff, Ole-Jacob Tjome, Norway
Holcombe, Randall Florida State University holcombe@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Horowitz, Irving Louis Rutgers University ihorowitz@transactionpub.com
Huebert, JH Youngstown, Ohio jhhuebert@aol.com
Huerta de Soto, Jesus Universidad Rey Juan Carlos huertadesoto@dimasoft.es
Hughes, Arthur University of Maryland
Ikeda, Sanford SUNY, Purchase College Sanford.Ikeda@purchase.edu
Jeffrey, Christina Limestone College
Jewell, Jason Faulkner University jjewell@faulkner.edu
Jones, Madison Auburn University
Kaplan, Edward Western Washington University kaplan@cc.wwu.edu
Kee, James R. St. Mary's University, San Antonio
Kinsella, N. Stephan Applied Optoelectronics, Inc stephan@stephankinsella.com
Kirzner, Israel New York University
Klein, Sandra University of Missouri KleinS@missouri.edu
Krecke, Elisabeth University of Law, Economics, and Science of Aix-Marseille Elisabeth.KRECKE@wanadoo.fr
Kudlow, Lawrence A. Schroder & Co., Inc. lawrence.kudlow@us.schroders.com
Kukathas, Chandran Australian Defense Force Academy c-kukathas@adfa.edu.au
Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter University of Southern Denmark kurrild@sam.sdu.dk
Laband, David Auburn University labandn@auburn.edu
Larkin, James University of Adelaide james.larkin@adelaide.edu.au
Lepage, Henri University of Paris lepageh@cybercable.fr
Leube, Kurt Hoover Institution, Stanford University krl@hoover.stanford.edu
Lilley, Floy Mises Institute floylilley@bellsouth.net
Lipkes, Jeff University of South Florida
Littlechild, Stephen O. University of Birmingham, England littlechild@tanworth.mercianet.co.uk
Livingston, Donald Emory University donlivin@bellsouth.net.
Lopez, Franklin A. University of New Orleans falef@jazz.ucc.uno.edu
Lottieri, Carlo University of Siena lottieri@tiscalinet.it
Luckey, William Christendom College wluckey@adelphia.net

Machovec, Frank Wofford College machovecfm@wofford.edu
Mahony, David O University College, Cork
Mathews, Donald Coastal Georgia College dmathews@cgcc.edu
Maxey, Margaret University of Texas, Austin dr.maxey@mail.utexas.edu
McCallie, John Michigan State University mccallie@msu.edu
McElroy, Wendy Ontario, Canada wendy@ifeminists.net
Melese, Francoise Naval Postgraduate School fmelese@mbay.net
Michel, Christian London, England cmichel@cmichel.com
Modugno, Roberta Adelaide University of Roma 3 modugno@poli.uniroma3.it
Moini, Mostafa Oklahoma City University mmoini@okcu.edu
Moldofsky, Naomi University of Melbourne, Australia
Montgomery, Michael University of Maine michael.montgomery@umit.maine.edu
Moore, Thomas Gale Hoover Institution
Moorhouse, John Wake Forest University moorhous@wfu.edu
Moots, Glenn Northwood University moots@northwood.edu
Moses, Michael Valdez Duke University mmoses@acpub.duke.edu
Moss, Laurence Babson College lmos@aol.com
Mueller, Antony P. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and University of Caxias do Sul, Brazil antonymueller@terra.com.br
Murata, Toshio Yokohama College of Commerce toshio@shodai.ac.jp
Murphy, Robert New York University bob.murphy.ancap@gmail.com
Nataf, Philippe University of Paris–Dauphine Phnataf@aol.com
North, Gary American Bureau of Economic Research
Okon, Hiroyuki Kokugakuin University okon@kokugakuin.ac.jp
Ostaszwski, Krzysztof University of Louisville
Ostrowski, James Buffalo, New York jameso@apollo3.com
Overbeek, Johannes University of the Virgin Islands joverbe@uni.edu
Padilla, Alexandre Metropolitan State College of Denver padilale@@mscd.edu
Pasour Jr., E.C. North Carolina State University ec_pasour@ncsu.edu
Peterson, William Heritage Foundation whpeterson@aol.com
Peyser, Thomas Randolph-Macon College tgpeyser@worldnet.att.net
Pongracic, Ivan Hillsdale College
Powell, Benjamin San Jose State University benjamin.powell@sjsu.edu
Prowse, Michael The Financial Times
Quirk, William University of South Carolina
Rashid, Salim University of Illinois s-rashid@uiuc.edu
Reed, Lawrence Mackinac Center for Public Policy Reed@Mackinac.org
Reekie, W. Duncan University of Witwatersrand 100rwd@mentor.edcm.wits.ac.za
Reisman, George Pepperdine University g.reisman@capitalism.net
Reynolds, Morgan Hot Springs Village, Arkansas econrn@suddenlink.net
Riddle, Wesley Allen U.S. Military Academy riddlew@emhlo.bliss.arm.mil
Ridgway, Terry University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ritenour, Shawn Grove City College srritenour@gcc.edu
Roberts, Carey M. Arkansas Tech University carey.roberts@mail.atu.edu
Roberts, Paul Craig Hoover Institution
Rodriguez de Ampuero, Dora Institute of Political Economy, Ecuador dampuero@ecua.net.ec
Rowley, Charles K. George Mason University
Rozeff, Michael University at Buffalo msroz@buffalo.edu
Sabrin, Murray Ramapo College txfree2000@aol.com
Salin, Pascal University of Paris pascal.salin@dauphine.fr
Saucier, Chantal Maurice, Lousiana karyma@earthlink.net
Schohl, Frank Friedrich Schiller University, Germany F.Schohl@wiwi.uni-jena.de
Sciabarra, Chris New York University chris.sciabarra@nyu.edu
Scott, Carole State University of West Georgia carole_e_scott@yahoo.com
Scott, Jeff Wells Fargo, San Francisco jeffscot@wellsfargo.com
Sechrest, Larry Sul Ross University larrys@sulross.edu
Seldon, Arthur Institute of Economic Affairs, London
Selgin, George University of Georgia
Sennholz, Hans F. Grove City College hans@sennholz.com
Shaffer, Butler D. Souhwestern University School of Law bshaffer@swlaw.edu
Shah, Parth Institute for Civil Society, India parth@ccsindia.org
Shanahan, Edmund Edmund Burke Institute edmund_shanahan@entemp.ie
Shapiro, Milton Claremont Graduate School
Shearmur, Jeremy Australian National University
Shenoy, Sudha University of Newcastle, Australia ecsrs@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Shostak, Frank Sydney, Australia fshostak@manfinancial.com.au
Sima, Josef Prague University of Economics & Liberalni Institut josef.sima@libinst.cz
Simpson, Barry University of South Alabama bsimpson@usouthal.edu
Smiley, Gene Marquette University smiley@mail.busadm.mu.edu
Smith, Barry State University of New York, Buffalo phismith@acsu.buffalo.edu
Smith, T. Alexander University of Tennessee tsmith4@utk.edu
Socher, Karl Institut Wirtschaftstheorie, Austria
Sommer, John W. Urban Institute, UNC, Charlotte
Sophocleus, John Auburn University sophojp@mail.auburn.edu
Steinreich, Dale dsteinreich@msn.com
Stringham, Edward San Jose State University estringh@email.sjsu.edu
Sunwall, Mark University of Hyogo sunoetic@yahoo.com
Tabarrok, Alexander Independent Institute atabarrok@independent.org
Tacker, Thomas Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Thomas.Tacker@erau.edu
Taylor, Thomas C. Wake Forest University taylort@wfu.edu
Terrell, Timothy Wofford College terrelltd@wofford.edu
Thommesen, Sven N. Auburn University
Thompson, Henry Auburn University thomph1@mail.auburn.edu
Tooley, Hunt Austin College htooley@austincollege.edu
Trask, Arthur Scott Mises Institute hstrask@highstream.net
Trivoli, George Jacksonville State University
van Dun, Frank University of Ghent Frank.vanDun@UGent.be
Vedder, Richard Ohio University vedder@ohio.edu
Veryser, Harry University of Detroit Mercy verysehc@udmercy.edu
Vieira Jr., Edwin National Alliance for Constitutional Money
Walker, Deborah Loyola University
Walstad, Allan University of Pittsburgh
Wells, John KPMG
Westley, Christopher Jacksonville State University cawestley@email.msn.com
Weymouth, Theodore Lake Forest Graduate School
Wilcke, Richard University of Louisville wilcke@louisville.edu
Williams, Frank Augusta State University frankerin@comcast.net
Wilson, Clyde University of South Carolina WILSONC@garnet.cla.sc.edu
Yamshon, Steven UCLA steven.yamshon.1986@anderson.ucla.edu
Yanochik, Mark Georgia Southern University myanochi@georgiasouthern.edu
Yates, Steven University of South Carolina Upstate yates2005@bellsouth.net
Yeager, Leland Auburn University lyeager@business.auburn.edu
Yoon, Bong Joon State University of New York, Binghamton
Younkins, Edward W. Wheeling Jesuit University younkins@wju.edu
Yu, Tony University of New South Wales
Zanella, Fernando United Arab Emirates University f.zanella@uaeu.ac.ae
Zelaniec, Wojciech International Academy of Philosophy zelaniec@aol.com
Zlabinger, Albert Carl Menger Institute, Vienna