University Bureaucracy Squelching Austrian Economics!

[strapko]

I want to save the original understanding of the constitution.

Who doesn't on these forums =D.

 

[0zzy]

I wanted to go to SIUC, my grandma lives in Anna (near Carbondale)!

 

[ARealConservative]

Who doesn't on these forums =D.

I don't want to point fingers.........

 

[strapko]

I want to go to Chicago for my econ major, but it looks like Miltion's ideas are long gone from that school.

 

[dannno]

The more I study the economy, (I am relatively new to it) the more I have taken to Reflexivity and the Behavioral Economics of Caginalp.

Have you been reading George Soros??

 

[OferNave]

I don't pick my beliefs out of a hat. I look at evidence, reach the best conclusion I can, then gather more evidence, and reevaluate. Repeat until I die.

This is a complex topic. If you want to know more about my conclusions and the supporting evidence, then I direct you to read the same sources I did, and then draw your own conclusions.

This is my favorite starting point:

http://www.amazon.com/World-Really-Works-Alan-Jones/dp/0964084813/

 

[ARealConservative]

Have you been reading George Soros??

worse. He respects the Keynesian apologists and their "theories" on how the central planners failed to prevent the 1987 crash.

 

[RonPaulFever]

Im going to SIUC

What's the professor's name? Poli Sci was my major and I might have had him/her for a class previously.

 

[danberkeley]

I don't understand.

Of course you don't. What else is new.

Ironically, he is one of the more valuable contributors on this forum.

As much as it sucks to admit it, the majority of posters here couldn't debate their way out of a wet paper bag and he enjoys beating up on those kind.

I would say this is the one thing that is holding us back.....Too many libertarian purists unaware that there truly are holes in the plan.

What are you talking about? Kade is a terrible debator. No one with an IQ above 125 takes him seriously. You got to be an idiot to say "Kade won the debate" when you know his arguments are full of fallacies, dodges, and poop. But Kade sure is great at pissing people off, but then you realize how ugly his avatar is and you feel much better. Wasn't Kade an Obama supporter? Anyway, here Kade's debating strategy:

RPF User: Describe the fallacies with the Austrian Business Cycle Theory.
Kade: Bizarro not like Superman. Bizarro have no friends. Bizarro plant tree in forest... Bizarro eat tree.

 

[RonPaulFever]

If we're too stupid to "get" you, Kade, why do you still post here? Perhaps you'll find more intellectual discourse at an Obama forum, which is where you belong anyway. Go there and spew your holier-than-thou shit, because your pretentious babble makes me nauseous.

 

[thechitowncubs]

What's the professor's name? Poli Sci was my major and I might have had him/her for a class previously.

Fassil Fanta....

 

[freelance]

Today after a discussion about government control of prices in a mixed economy I went up to my professor and asked if he ever heard of Murray Rothbard or Ludwig von Mises. He said no.

I then asked if he ever has heard of Austrian Economics, he showed some signs of familiarity. He is a foreign teacher so I don't think he has become aware of how America really works, yet. He said he heard about Austrian Economics and said that they talk about the Federal Reserve and such. Then he went on to say that his professors have told him not to use the Austrian school of thought when writing for graduate classes and that he should not focus on it at all.

At this point, I started to wonder, is it common for the Austrian school to be so ridiculed on a theoretical basis or is it more of a powers that be incentive type thing.

Any thoughts? I got the shivers when I heard his response and the way he smiled when I talked to him about it.

Who owns the universities, even the private ones and the foundations that fund them? Who funds the chairs, the research, etc.? Do you really expect the universities to teach a philosophy contrary to the one that brings in the bucks?

The government owns everything and most everyone.

 

[ruggedindividualist]

In real academics, Rothbard and such are jokes... but you won't learn that on these forums.

Your professor sounds like an idiot though... all my financial professors knew Rothbard, some hate, some love... no in-between.

Mises=/=Rothbard either.

Define "real academics". Nearly all self-proclaimed "academics" I have personally known (and I've been around long enough to have known a few) have been pompous horses asses who couldn't hope to have achieved the smallest amount of what Mises and Rothbard have. So the educational establishment tries to marginalize the Austrians who do not provide esoteric "economic" justifications for looting, aggression and murder by the state. Gee, what a shock.

 

[ruggedindividualist]

Grove City College

Who owns the universities, even the private ones and the foundations that fund them? Who funds the chairs, the research, etc.? Do you really expect the universities to teach a philosophy contrary to the one that brings in the bucks?

The government owns everything and most everyone.

Grove City College: The economics department is heavily Austrian influenced and they do not accept federal student aid.

Great school.

 

[freelance]

Grove City College: The economics department is heavily Austrian influenced and they do not accept federal student aid.

Great school.

That's really interesting! Do they accept federal dollars for research and other things? Are they a public or private school?

 

[strapko]

Austrian Economic defenders +1; Kade -1

 

[Conza88]

Would you mind stepping down from your individualistic high horse for a few moments to inform the rest of us mere mortals what exactly you find so distasteful about Austrian economics?

Don't give us another rant please, just answer the question.. thanks..

Kade likes to think he's unique. So he parades as a collectivist on an individualist orientated forum. He then calls everyone collectivists and psychopathically considers himself to be the only individual. He just fails to recognise the fact that the majority of the population are collectivists. He has some sick devotion to the word "liberal" & won't let reality sway him.

Ironically, he is one of the more valuable contributors on this forum.

As much as it sucks to admit it, the majority of posters here couldn't debate their way out of a wet paper bag and he enjoys beating up on those kind.

I would say this is the one thing that is holding us back.....Too many libertarian purists unaware that there truly are holes in the plan.

I call bullshit. Valuable contributions? Name them please. Holes in the plan... like what?

Austrian Economic defenders +1; Kade -1

+13; -7

 

[powerofreason]

Holes in the plan... like what?

Hehe, thats always a fun debate. Better start a new thread

 

[strapko]

Hehe, thats always a fun debate. Better start a new thread

The holes I assume from what I seen Kade posting is:

Quackery in the free market
Worker rights - lol
no public education, everyone will be a barbarian zomg!
and basically all the other emotional arguments the media puts out, which have been proven to be fallacy.

 

[Arklatex]

I first read of free market economic advantages from guess where? My intro econ class back in college at a southern university. That was around 04.