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From: V
Sent: Sun 7/16/2017 5:46 PM
To: Walter Block
Subject: Re: Feedback
Last year I emailed you a week after Mises U with the query of which major to select for the PhD (finance vs economics), however, I found your response
shocking as I would thought that you will aggressively advocate for economics, you replied “Whichever is the most fun for you” , this got me thinking and all themes and topics of interest for me where related to internationalization, so after a year of giving a lot of thinking I decided to purse my PhD in International Business which I will start on August 2017. I will like to thank you for your response because I’m now pursing the PhD I that I find the most fun, without any hesitation and/or second thoughts.
Dear V: I’m delighted your happy with your choice. I have several coauthors with whom, at any given time, we have 3-4 articles in the works. Sometimes, one of these coauthors asks me, “What should I work on first, and in what order?” My answer, invariably, apart from cases where an editor is breathing down our necks with deadlines, is: “Do whatever is the most fun!” We Austro-libertarians are supposed to have FUN in our professional (and personal, too) lives. I get this from my friend and mentor Murray Rothbard, who was just about the most joyous person I have ever met. I try to emulate him in every way I can.
1:45 am on July 19, 2017
