The late Don Lavoie started the Austrian program at GMU. He did his graduate work at NYU, where they have long had an Austrian component to their program, on the socialist calculation debates. He was not one's usual idea of an Austrian economist (at least mine), and this resulted in the development of at least two different Austrian camps, that have not got along very well. The other one follows Murray Rothbard and is associated with Auburn U. Some of Don's students like Dave Prychitko have used Austrian ideas to promote things like worker self-management. But GMU also has people like Buchanan, Walter Williams, Vernon Smith, and others who are not Austrian and before his death at age 50 Don ended up leaving the economics department and starting the Program on Social and Organizational Learning (POSOL) and getting very involved in the Cultural Studies program at GMU.
Don's students all read Marx, Keynes, et al., and were very open to friendly debate with those who disagreed with them. I was invited to GMU to present my work at their seminar even though they full well knew I would be critical of Austrian ideas and present policy conclusions far, far away from theirs. MF _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
