I’d love to, again, but this time it was Austrian economics.

I know very little about Austrian economics, or economics in general, for that matter. Boyd majored in the subject for his undergraduate degree at Iowa (1951), and perhaps you can detect an economic underpinning in his discussions of Soviet revolutionary strategy (Patterns 67-68) and guerrilla warfare (Patterns 90 – 98 and 107 – 109).

It’s also worth noting that he did have at least one book on Austrian economics in his collection:

F.A. Hayek; The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, edited by W.W. Bartley III, University of Chicago Press, 1988 annotated

“Annotated” means that he scribbled in the margins and probably on the front and back pages.

With all that in mind, Hunter Hastings, whose LinkedIn description is “Value creation processes built on the principles of Austrian economics,” just published a podcast of our discussion on Boyd and entrepreneurship on his Value Creators Podcast:

As I mentioned in my last post, Hunter and Mark McGrath have written a paper on the many common points between Austrian economics and Boyd’s strategy.