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Hello everybody. Tom Woods here. It is such a pleasure to welcome Gito Holtzman to the show.

He is the great biographer of Ludwig von Meeses. The book in question, of course, is Meeses,

The Last Night of Liberalism, an astonishing book, wonderful book. He's the author of other books as well.

I'm particularly fond of his book, The Ethics of Money Production. There's no book quite like that one,

so probably at some point I'll have to get him back to

talk about that. But Guido is an extraordinarily accomplished scholar. He's a professor at the

University of Angé in France, where, of course, he teaches in French. He speaks German

natively and learned English at a later age, And it's interesting, the one time, my understanding

of the story is the one time he had an opportunity to meet Murray Rothbard. He recalls that his

English at that time was quite halting. And so he didn't have quite the conversation that he

wanted to have. And now his English is so beautiful. It makes me feel embarrassed, the way he can deliver

a scholarly lecture so elegantly, and with just the right word choice, he puts native English

speakers absolutely to shame. So he's just a brilliant, brilliant guy. Really one of the top people

we have, I think, especially if you read his scholarly work in the

journals, like in the quarterly journal of Austrian economics, for example, you know you

are reading something by, in my opinion, one of the genuine greats we have today.

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