53 sats \ 10 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 22h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
It could be that they are just surrounded by the leftists at their institutions (whichever they may be). It would be very difficult to maintain a contrarian attitude successfully in those conditions, especially if you depended upon the institution for your daily bread. Sometimes, you just can’t help yourself.
Even mainstream economists don't mind being perceived as having controversial views by their colleagues. The difficulty is in how constrained the range of opinions is that they're exposed to.
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If you even hint that you do not to the Party line, the other profs and HR are on you like files on kaka. That is how they keep other economists in line. Being an Austrian is very difficult under most of these circumstances.
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Certainly on some topics.
The difficulty for Austrians has more to do with not being able to publish in the top journals, which is all departments really care about.
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There are some rare places to publish for Austrians, mostly connected to Moses Institute.
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Mises Institute isn't considered an academic journal?
Certainly not one that leads to promotions and tenure?
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Moses Institute has several academic journals, however, to get mainstream economists and most university departments to acknowledge them is a different matter. Most university economics departments are mainstream economics.
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And publishing decisions are never political lol
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Narrator band
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Peer pressure for sure
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It isn’t even just peer pressure. It is pressure from HR, administrators and students, too. cancel culture is cancel culture and it won’t stop until everyone can say NO.
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