A Gift from Mark Skousen and Me to the World

Gary North

August 31, 2011

In August 1985, Mark Skousen, John Mauldin, and I drove to the Austrian Alps to interview F.A. Hayek. Skousen had arranged the interview. Hayek was on vacation.

Mauldin was my business manager. He had set up a tour of Europe for my Remnant Review subscribers.

I had the portable Sony Walkman Professional tape recorder.

Skousen and I did the interviews.

Hayek said he did not want them released until after he died. He died in 1992.

I sent a copy of the interview to a researcher at Stanford University, W. W. Bartley. He was working on Hayek's papers. He died in 1990.

I lost track of the tapes. I found them a few years ago. I sent them to the Mises Institute. They were physically old by that time. The interview is on the Mises site, but the quality is not good.

I decided yesterday to release my part of the interview. Mark Skousen has agreed, as long as we are acknowledged as the interviewers. Legally, we must retain copyright in order to require the users to acknowledge us as the interviewers, but we hereby announce that anyone may use the tapes in any way he chooses, as long as we are acknowledged as the interviewers. This is what the Foundation for Economic Education did with articles in The Freeman for decades. Anyone could reprint them, as long as the source was acknowledged.

Interview #1

Interview #2