I have a friend who doesn’t have the knowledge yet to answer this guy and I can’t really check it over for another few hours, although I’m sure it’s full of fallacies, false dichotomies and unsupported assertions - I find that non-Austrians are generally devoid of the ability to think logically or, …

You’re sure it’s wrong, even though you haven’t read it? You’re sure it’s “full of fallacies, false dichotomies and unsupported assertions”? So, you’ve just made a string of assertions without any support. Yet, you insult another person as presenting arguments “full of … unsupported assertions.” V…

I insult the guy based on the premise of the article. I did get a chance to skim it and one of the assertions he makes is that many of the assumptions of Austrian Economics is false. How can I take someone seriously who asserts garbage like that? First-rate thinker? I doubt it.

Looks like this was discussed. I’m sure both my friend and I will read them - thanks.

@shadeclan just to be clear though, do not dismiss economists because they aren’t Austrian Economists… you can learn a lot from non-austrian economists. David Friedman, an influence of mine, as well to some others on here, is an awesome economists and he is a neoclassical

The premise of the article is a critique of Austrian Economics. If you are going to dismiss critiques out of hand for no reason better than because they are critiques then you should just move on, IMO. Austrian Economics doesn’t need any more cheerleaders.

Bryan Caplan’s ‘why I’m not an austrian Economist’ should better be termed ‘why I’m an austrian economist, but why I differ on a few minor quibbles’.

Here’s a paper by an eminent mathematician proving that 2+2=17. What’s that? You’re sure it’s wrong, even though you haven’t read it? How very wacky. Or not.

Here’s a paper by an eminent mathematician proving that 2+2=17. What’s that? You’re sure it’s wrong, even though you haven’t read it? How very wacky. Or not. Are you saying that every claim made against Austrians are as self evidently wrong as 2+2=17?

Bob Murphy wrote that Caplan’s first claim, that mainstream economics does NOT assign numeric values to utils [to those who understand math], is totally correct. He points out the ridiculous mathematical error of some of Caplan’s critics on this point.

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https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/rebuttals-to-bryan-caplans-critique-of-misesian-economics/14892

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/any-rebuttals-to-critiques-of-austrian-economics/2653

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