Bryan Caplan- Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist

[mtj458]

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm

I'm guessing he wrote this about ten years ago but I just read it. If you don't know who Bryan Caplan is, he is an anarchist economics teacher at George Mason. I disagree with what he wrote on the business cycle but a lot of his thoughts on the micro foundations, such as utility and continuity, seem like legitimate criticisms, plus he points out some interesting contradictions in Rothbard's and Mises' logic.

He also wrote Myth of the Rational Voter which is one of the best political/economic books written in the past few years.

[Fox McCloud]

I haven't read it yet, but the Mises Institute has replied to this: http://blog.mises.org/?p=000841

[hugolp]

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm

I'm guessing he wrote this about ten years ago but I just read it. If you don't know who Bryan Caplan is, he is an anarchist economics teacher at George Mason. I disagree with what he wrote on the business cycle but a lot of his thoughts on the micro foundations, such as utility and continuity, seem like legitimate criticisms, plus he points out some interesting contradictions in Rothbard's and Mises' logic.

He also wrote Myth of the Rational Voter which is one of the best political/economic books written in the past few years.

This is actually the only real critique that austrian economics has recieve in modern times. Anything else has been just bullshit. And as they have told you there is alredy an answer.