tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post1529783082342800980..comments2024-03-27T03:00:27.024-04:00Comments on Facts & other stubborn things: More like Misesians in the ShireEvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259004160963531720noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-61835244435322664022012-07-11T01:48:03.591-04:002012-07-11T01:48:03.591-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-48054138544128538962012-07-11T01:46:14.552-04:002012-07-11T01:46:14.552-04:00That's funny, because I have noticed that you ...That's funny, because I have noticed that you aren't very fond of him, and last time I talked to him it was pretty obvious that he isn't very fond of you. Just something that I've noticed. To answer your question, no.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-1792780979027470922012-07-10T12:43:43.040-04:002012-07-10T12:43:43.040-04:00Let me preface my statements by saying I think Ron...Let me preface my statements by saying I think Ron Paul should have chosen his later crowd, White, Salerno and Cochran first. They are some of the prominent monetary economists in the broad Austrian school. It is a shame, especially considering that the audience attending their hearing did not seem to be nearly as extensive as both of the earlier ones. <br /><br />"Under Paul's chairmanship, all of the academic hearings have been dominated by Austrian economists. It's hard to think of a single prominent Austrian monetary thinker friendly to the Auburn crowd that hasn't been invited to testify (guys like Steve Horwitz haven't, but that's largely because of Paul's relationship with the Auburn group, I imagine)."<br /><br />I know White is amicable, but does not agree with the Auburn crowd on monetary policy. If you watch the webcast you see repeated times where White says he disagrees with one of the other speakers. Nothing wrong with that, of course. <br /><br />"Congressional discussions of monetary policy are very, very friendly to the Austrian school."<br /><br />Huh? You might have jumped the gun on that one. Better to say "Congressional discussions of monetary policy [run by Ron Paul] are very, very friendly to the Austrian school." My memory may not serve me well, but I don't believe Austrian economists were invited before Ron Paul (on policy legislation, during the banking crisis, etc etc). <br /><br />"If you're a Keynesian or a Monetarist you need international renown and decades of seminal publications to testify on monetary policy before Congress. If you're an Austrian you don't even need to be a freaking monetary economist - you just need Ron Paul in charge. And yet we're often told that it's Keynesians who have the ear of politicians and it's Keynesians that get the special treatment."<br /><br />Under Ron Paul it is undeniable that he chooses Austrians over others. But there were plenty of well qualified Austrian economists that could have been chosen for other events but were not invited. And while they may not have had the credentials of seminal publications and international renown, that was because they were Austrian. You can't get the types of publications, writing textbooks etc, as an Austrian economist.Patchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-39162584495003191412012-07-10T11:27:34.975-04:002012-07-10T11:27:34.975-04:00Has DiLorenzo done *anything* of any significance ...Has DiLorenzo done *anything* of any significance in any area of economics?gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.com