me: >> they're not scare quotes. I just don't think they [the "Austrian school"] >> should identify their country of origin with their school. It's not like >> they have had a monopoly of intellectual power over Austria the way the >> followers of Milton Friedman have at the University of Chicago. For example, >> Joseph Schumpeter was from Austria but did not belong to the Hayek/Mises/et >> al crowd.<<
David B. Shemano wrote: > You are tough.< thank you. > I did not realize there was a concern that people would assume that Austria > presently follows the economic guidelines set forth in "Human Action." < I don't want to insult Austria. I'm told it's a pleasant country. > What name would you prefer that the "Austrians" call themselves -- the > "Neoclassical Marginal Subjectivists Who Do Not Agree With The Chicagoans On > Monetary Policy And Certain Methodological Issues?" You realize that the > relabeling costs alone will doom your proposal.< How about Hayekians or dynamic neoclassicals? or we could put quotation marks around the term "Austrian" without assuming that they are scare quotes. me: >> The A school may have studied Keynes but they have not abandoned Say's Law. That colors all of their thinking.<< David: > I suppose in some sense that is true, but that is the (a) heart of the > argument, is it not? It is certainly not ignorance.< They don't get the point. Say's law was debunked long before Keynes. People should understand that. To not understand that is a sign of ignorance. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
