Mises Daily
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Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan
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Dear Professor Mankiw, A little over five years ago, a student of yours emailed you asking if you had read Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action . You responded that, while slightly embarrassed, you had not read Human Action on account of its age — published in 1949, it is well beyond the 20-30 year limit you suggest as relevant literature — and the