If you know much about Ron Paul pls answer?

I know he is Scholar in Austrian School of Economics and his background. However, I was discussing Ron Paul with my professor on an online forum and he replied with “Ron Paul's favorite economist was one of my teachers at New York University.” Does anyone have any idea who that might be?

Public Comments

1. He is a direct honest person who is not afraid of telling the bitter truth. Unfortunately, Americans do not believe in pure bitter truth.
2. Ludwig von Mises. He was a visiting professor at New York University from 1945 until he retired in 1969.
3. The ex-chairman of Infosys technologies..?
4. I think Ron Paul is delusional. I admire him though for his intrepid pursuit, he had no chance.
5. It may be Walter Williams the economist. Or Murray Rothbard, both Austrian School. ***********************************************************
6. Ron Paul is pro-Constitution. He is pro-life because he believes the future lies in our youth. And Ron Paul believes in health freedom and free trade, none of which the liberals believe.
7. Calling Paul a Scholar in Austrain School of Economics is really stretching it - he has read a bit but clearly does not understand it. Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk - one of the founders of the Austrian School denounced laissez faire economics saying unbridled competition would lead to "anarchism in production and consumption". If he understood Austrian School Economics he would also understand 2 things 1. The Austrian School does not advocate what he does. Rather it claims that different economic policies will have different effects, and merely assists in relating those effects to the intention of the policy 2. The Austrian School is not empirical, nor observational, rather working with logical thought experiments but ignoring the sometimes illogical behaviour of both consumers and producers in real markets. Nash's work in hostile game theory adequately demonstrates the flaw in Austrian School assumptions. As such - findings of the Austrian School can at best be used as idylls - not the self evident solutions to all our problems Paul claims his policies represent. With respect to who this favorite economist is, I agree with an earlier post - it is most likely Ludwig von Mises who was a guest professor at New York University from 1945 to 1969.
8. Ron Paul is a free market nut, and a white supremacist, i.e. a racist.
9. I thought von Mises was his favorite. And the person above me is completely wrong, although that is a smear put out by those who want to discredit him. (His idea that the government shouldn't tax Americans to fund the world carries over to not subsidizing illegal immigrants as well, and it is spun that way. As a close friend of Ron Paul's of 20 years' standing who is an NAACP district chief says, Ron Paul is one of the least racist people you could know. Look into it, if the issue bothers you. Those smearing him are sure you will just hear it and believe it is true.) Ron Paul is the champion of the Constitution in Congress, which is very inconvenient to all of those, Dem and REpublican both, who would much prefer to continue ignoring their oaths of office. -- and to another post, of course the Austrian school is empirical and only says different policies will have different effects. What Ron Paul does is use it to show what effect not following the Constitution will have - such as the above $1000 gold he long since predicted, which came to be fact, yesterday.