Et tu, George Selgin?: A Cato Institute Attack on Murray Rothbard?

David Gordon writes:

George, Say It Isn’t So

The proverbial grapevine is often unreliable, and I very much hope that a story just transmitted to me is false. At the recently concluded Cato University, the tale has it, the well-known monetary economist George Selgin displayed a picture of Murray Rothbard and asked whether anyone in the class knew who it was. No one did, and Selgin said this was good, because all of his ideas were wrong. Would Selgin include in this claim, the person who transmitted the story to me wondered, Rothbard’s praise for Selgin’s paper on praxeology?

Here is a quote from the Selgin paper that Gordon may be thinking of: .

A few bouquets did manage to float their way along
the stream of criticisms against my essay. Murray
Rothbard was an early source of encouragement: I still
recall with great pleasure the evening spent with him in
his New York apartment as he painstakingly reviewed
The Ludwig von Mises Institute Selgin • 7
my first draft.

  -RW