Lucille
02-16-2009, 08:23 AM
An Austrian in Tennessee (http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/02/austrian-in-tennessee.html)
The Austrian school of economics is a fundamental basis of my worldview, going back to when a former editor (Tommy Toles, who once served as press secretary to Rep. Larry McDonald) introduced me to the Foundation for Economic Education's monthly journal, The Freeman, around 1994.
By happenstance, I just stumbled onto a blog post by Ron Jones of Nashville, Tennessee, who describes how he became an ex-Republican conservative via Austrian economics.
Mr. Jones seems to be something of an autodidactic Austrian, and his disillusionment with the current system of party politics is typical of the Ron Paul/Rothbardian mood among many disillusioned Ordinary Americans. As Patrick Cleburn says in commending Mr. Jones's work: "There is a an instinctive presumption that if all the MSM can find to offer is NeoCon versus Liberal Democrat, maybe no one else can talk."
This entry (from Mr. Jones' blog) is well worth a read:
An American Conservative (http://www.jonesfamily.us/ron-jones/perspective/politics/0049-american-conservative)
The Austrian school of economics is a fundamental basis of my worldview, going back to when a former editor (Tommy Toles, who once served as press secretary to Rep. Larry McDonald) introduced me to the Foundation for Economic Education's monthly journal, The Freeman, around 1994.
By happenstance, I just stumbled onto a blog post by Ron Jones of Nashville, Tennessee, who describes how he became an ex-Republican conservative via Austrian economics.
Mr. Jones seems to be something of an autodidactic Austrian, and his disillusionment with the current system of party politics is typical of the Ron Paul/Rothbardian mood among many disillusioned Ordinary Americans. As Patrick Cleburn says in commending Mr. Jones's work: "There is a an instinctive presumption that if all the MSM can find to offer is NeoCon versus Liberal Democrat, maybe no one else can talk."
This entry (from Mr. Jones' blog) is well worth a read:
An American Conservative (http://www.jonesfamily.us/ron-jones/perspective/politics/0049-american-conservative)