>Who cares about gold? Who cares about avoiding math? Not me. I guess I am no Austrian for those reasons. The people who wrote those books that you said would

>Who cares about gold? Who cares about avoiding math? Not me. I guess I am no Austrian for those reasons. The people who wrote those books that you said would support your argument certainly do. >I’ll be happy to get my (Of course discredited) books out and recite the counter case about the Great Depression if anybody really wants me to later >I do care, however, about restraining the inflationary tendencies of governments because I believe they are an engine of wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich and powerful. Are you basing this belief on anything other than gut feelings and the work of Austrian economists who's books you've read? von Mises is an absolute crackpot, but he does a very good job of making you "feel" that his arguments are valid. >And sure, I suppose I do care about avoiding mathematical naval gazing, or statistical hackery. That's different than the Austrian position that mathematical analysis is impossible and harmful. Without accepting the basic premise of Austrian economics that "no measurement is possible" and everything can be derived from the first principle of "humans acting with purpose", the rest of their "proofs" are worthless. You can't just accept (and cite) their arguments while also acknowledging the fundamental flaws with the axioms they use to reach their conclusions.