Shout out to Sudha Shenoy who died on June 3, 2008. A kind soul and great teacher of Austrian Ecoomics and fellow at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. She died of cancer.
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I never contacted her personally but I know she was the go-to person for questions about Hayek.
She had wide ranging interests and you would never know where she might pop up. I was reading a major climate blog over a year ago and she appeared on several threads asking questions and making observations. I don't think anyone there had a clue about who she was.
She will be missed.
It's hard to believe that it has been about seven years since Don Lavoie left us. I met him and Roy Childs in Ann Arbor in 1980 at the "Students for a Libertarian Society" convention. Two other bright lights gone before their time.
I intended to add something to my content about Sudha Shenoy last night, but didn't think it would attract much interest. It is easy to assume that Austrian Economics is the exclusive domain of white western males. Reading the interview with Shenoy posted on AEN a few years ago was a welcome eye opener. With Shenoy being both an eastern and a female, it was a double treat. She died so young. Just one year older than I.
You probably saw the following posted on LRC Blog:
Sudha Shenoy (1943-2008)
Posted by Lew Rockwell at 08:38 AM
I have just had the very sad news of the death of this wonderful Austrian economist. What a smart, learned, and delightful person she was, and what a great lady. She seemed to know everything about F.A. Hayek, the common law, and the history of international trade, to take just three areas of her vast expertise, and was always generous in sharing her knowledge. A student of Hayek and Rothbard who taught at the University of Newcastle, she was coming to the Mises Institute for her own lecture series in September. She had visited often, the last few times as she bravely and quietly fought her cancer. How we will miss her. The cause of liberty has lost a great champion - she was an enthusiastic partisan of Ron Paul from her home in Australia, for example - as has the Austrian School. May her great soul rest in peace.
UPDATE See this wonderful interview in the Austrian Economics Newsletter.
http://mises.org/journals/aen/aen23_4_1.pdf
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