John Medaille and others with similar impressions of Mises' research methodology may benefit from consulting a standard work in sociology of the early 20th century--ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY by Albion W. Small, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1924. In it, considerable space is dedicated to explaining the early contributions to sociological theory by the Austrian Carl Menger. Mises' work is a direct extension of the foundations laid by Menger. Samuel Bostaph