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NOTE Why was the intial response to Mises's work so poor in America?

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It seems simplistic, but it's really true. Nobody reads German.

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Nobody in Anglo-Saxon world, no scholars read German.

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So the German literature is cut off from us.

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I conclude myself, I don't read German either.

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But it's true in general.

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Keynes admitted one. Keynes reviewed The Theory of Money and Credit when it came out in the economic journal.

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He said, well, it's interesting, but not much new in it.

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Later on, 40 years later or something, he writes in his diary or tells somebody

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that, well, he didn't really know German, and he knew German well enough to understand what he already knew,

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But he didn't know enough to understand new things, right?

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This joker has a nerve to review a book in German!

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I mean, I wouldn't review a book in German!

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Why is he doing it?