Most people don’t know that Warren Buffett’s father was Howard Buffett, a laissez-faire, sound-money United States congressman from Nebraska.
His views on the economy couldn’t have been farther removed from what his son’s would one day be.
He didn’t yet know that, though, when he wrote to Mr. Libertarian, Murray Rothbard, asking how he might get his son a copy of Rothbard’s book The Panic of 1819. “I have a son who is a particularly avid reader of books about panics and similar phenomena,” he said.
Buffett also said he was reading through Man, Economy, and State, Rothbard’s thousand-page treatise (originally published in two volumes), and asked how he might assist in getting wider circulation for those volumes.
Unfortunately, the apple fell far from the tree.
Buffett’s son proved to be a great investor, but a very poor economist.
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I’ve found you some.
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Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is the 2019 winner of the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award from the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. He is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show, which releases a new episode every weekday. Visit https://tomwoods.com