There are many audios that have been added on Mises.org lately from the 1990s. They have been harder to find amidst all of the ASC lectures (including mine). I was listening to this one yesterday by George Koether, who knew Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard. It was pretty good but I especially liked the part where he talked about books that Mises recommended reading. He said whenever Mises would recommend books at his seminars he would go out and buy them. The first one Mises recommended was Introduction to Logic by Irving M. Copi and Carl Cohen, now in its 13th edition!
I was extremely excited because I checked that book out from the library a few months ago after researching books on logic. It is an excellent book. Now I need my own copy to highlight and mark up. Just to give you an idea of its brilliance, the first page of the book (literally, the preface) starts off with this quote by Thomas Jefferson:
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of the first importance.
This is the book Mises recommended everyone should read first. Mr. Koether also discussed Keynes’s library, which he said was full of mathematics books, with very few on economics. This also reveals the difference in methods employed by Austrians vs. Keynesians (and most others).
