"Among the contending schools of economic science there is one which does at least theoretically recommend humility, listening, really listening, scientifically speaking – not certainly the Marxism I started with, nor the Harvard Samuelsonian I was trained in, nor the Good Old Chicago School I then practiced, but the NYU-Auburn-George-Mason-University Austrian economics that [the late Don] Lavoie discovered young as a student of computer science and improved in his work. Austrian economists are the free-market followers of the literal, ethnic Austrians Menger (1840-1921), Mises (1881-1973), and Hayek (1899-1992). They have for about a century been explaining to us other economists that the economic scientist cannot expect to outguess the businessperson."
from page 190 of Deirdre N. McCloskey’s 2006 book, The Bourgeois Virtues; this quotation is from a profound chapter entitled “Humility and Truth” (links added)
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