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by stephen_g 3198 days ago
Look, as much as I dislike the Austrian school (it all hangs on certain premises that I don't believe are necessarily true, so I don't think it contributes much to being able to understand the economy), the main problem with the comment above was that it wasn't very useful in just dropping a link with little context... With a bit of commentary or a brief summary of the article, people would have engaged with it instead of just downvoting.
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So does mainstream economics. They are both wrong.

At least the Austrian school admits they made the whole thing up in a religious fashion and never submit their ideas to actual science.

Mainstream economics just pretends it's scientific when really the whole belief structure is a house of cards in the same way

I don't disagree, I think that certain ideas from the post-Keynesian and modern monetary theory are probably the closest to actual evidence based Economics at the moment.