Klaus is a strange guy. Avowed reader of Mises and Hayek, he managed to run a very corrupt and invasive government. He pushed CEU from Prague (by refusing Soros to honor a deal on a symbolic rent for the premises, because "markets should price everything correctly"), which was one of the stupidest things one could possibly do - to refuse a gift of a world-class university? But he also delayed privatization of banks, and kept a lot of economy controlled by funds owned by these banks (and so indirectly by the government). In other words, he refused government responsibility for education, but accepted it for commercial banks. I'd guess any "Austrian" economist would have it just the opposite.

So, he's one of the "do as I say, not as I do" guys.

His book is everywhere in Prague. But there seems to be very little debate of it in the media.

His popularity consistently hovers in the Putin range, though...