If I may strike a middle ground between Peter and Pete. One can influence others outside of a Ph.D program or even a university, but it is more difficult. And, as I suggested a few comments back, some have even done it without a Ph.D. But that is a tough road to follow now.O'Driscoll认为“政治小册子穆瑞削弱了学者穆瑞”，让我想到了一个很好的例子。Murray was sui generis in many respects. He did get his Ph.D under Dorfman and didn't discover Mises until afterwards. Many of Murray's ideas were well-formed before reading Mises, and he is an original thinker in his own right. He is the very example of what some are resisting: he changed how those who followed conceived Austrian economics.Murray's dissertation was published by Columbia U. Press and he published in academic journals. He didn't take a university position because he got a research position at the Volcker Fund. He influenced and was influenced by other academics, not students.When the Volcker Fund collapsed, Murray had to scramble for an academic position and was forced to take a less prestigious one than would otherwise have been the case for a brilliant Ph.D student from Columbia. That was a necessity, not a badge of courage.
When I was a graduate student at UCLA, Murray was invited to speak to the department and gave an excellent talk. He was taken seriously by serious academics. His scholarly work was appeciated. Unfortunately, Murray the political pamphleteer undermined Murray the scholar. That was the consequence of his own life choices.
The life choice I'd recommend to those who admire Murray's work (as do I) is to follow Murray the scholar. Go to the best university you can and take the best academic position you can find. Publish in the best journals and communicate to your fellow academics in the profession at large. Do what Murray did and discover truth.
提到罗斯巴德，我们会想到很多相关主题，但很少会有人重视罗斯巴德在企业理论上的贡献。实际上，罗斯巴德在1962年的《人，经济与国家》（pp. 544–50，中文版第603–10页）中，根据米塞斯的经济计算理论，讨论了纵向一体化（即一家企业在生产的一个以上阶段进行生产）和企业的规模问题。
用罗伯特·墨菲在《人，经济与国家学习指南》（p. 113）里的总结，罗斯巴德认为：
如果一家假想的企业与所有其他企业合并，则各种要素市场将不复存在，因此其所有者（们）无法计算各条生产线的相对盈利能力。这种混乱局面在自由市场上永远不会持续。社会主义只是这种更普遍现象的一种特殊（重要）情况。
根据克莱因（《资本家与企业家》，第15–16页），“在1976年的论文中，罗斯巴德明确采用了科斯的框架来进行企业规模限度的讨论。”罗斯巴德在这个领域的研究，实际上早于阿尔钦、德姆塞茨、威廉姆森、哈特等新制度经济学大佬。
我们需要更多地关注学者罗斯巴德。
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