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Economics involves studying how the economy should be managed, it is an inherently political field. Declaring one school political and another non-political is
by bee_rider 1y ago
Economics involves studying how the economy should be managed, it is an inherently political field. Declaring one school political and another non-political is itself a political sleight of hand.
- cjbgkagh 1y ago> Declaring one school political and another non-political If I were to make a distinction it would be that Austrian is a Positive Theory and Neo-Keynesian is a Normative theory, and I think it’s fair to say that normative theories are more open to political influence than positive ones.
- hapless 1y agoOne school consists of every university in the world. The other school is George Mason University, and, uh, the John Birch Society.
- mothballed 1y agoI'm pretty sure UNLV still has Hoppe and they only let go of Rothbard because he died. Which pairs pretty well with the pretty laissez-faire roots of Nevada.
- luther07 1y agoAlso Grove City College has been dedicated to the Austrian School since 1956 apparently, when they hired Hans Sennholz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Sennholz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Sennholz