Thanks for the feedback. I hope to provide some more satisfying conclusions at the end of this series of posts - posting here was perhaps premature. I think th

Thanks for the feedback. I hope to provide some more satisfying conclusions at the end of this series of posts - posting here was perhaps premature. I think the difficulty with your reading is that Mises does not appeal to “social interest” or any related concept in this essay, and we know from his other writings that he sees welfare as radically subjective (the market order is held to be “efficient” in the sense of satisfying each consumer’s preferences, whatever those may be). Hence my footnote on Mises’ use of the term “efficiency”, which is as close as he gets to discussing welfare. http://socialistplanning.org/posts/reckoning-with-mises#fn12 http://socialistplanning.org/posts/reckoning-with-mises#fn12