FOREST MAKA DEPARTMENT WAKE FOREST INSTITUTE FOR LABOR POLICY ANALYSIS OF Wake Forest University School of Law Box 7206 Reynolda Station Sylvester Petro, Director Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109 March 13, 1975 Mrs. Margit von Mises 777 West End Avenue New York, New York 10025 Dear Margit: Thank you for your wonderful letter of March 9. I do not intend in this reply to spend any time on pleasantries. Since you wish to complete your book soon, I believe it will be best if I get right to the point and answer the questions you have asked. So here goes. 1. I first encountered Lu's work in 1950, when I read Human Action. The book was a revelation to me. I had never encountered anything like it before. It was a magnificent work on every level of scholarship. It covered all the fields which great scholars must cover and cover well, from history, to logic, to epistemology, to economics, to social theory, to political theory, and even to law. I repeat, never had I encountered so magnificent a work. It was to influence me for the rest of my life. Moreover the influence began very early, as can be seen from my references to it immediately in two rather technical articles I wrote, one in 1952 entitled "Job-Seeking Aggression, the NLRA, and the Free Market," published in the Michigan Law Review; and the other, "Crosskey and the Constitution: A Reply to Goebel, " printed, again in the Michigan Law Review, in December of 1954. 2. Lu and I first met, I believe, in either 1951 or 1952. The occasion of the meeting was a letter of appreciation which I had written to him about Human Action. I told him in that