Bryan Caplan

Yes, democracies give leaders strong incentives to adopt popular policies. But if you study public opinion, you’ll discover that neither libertarian nor wealth-creating policies are very popular.

In my critique of Austrian economics, I carved out a virtually unique position: Despite the Austrians' professed devotion to "realism” against neoclassical pragmatism, the latter approach is in fact far more realistic than the former. 

Contrary to Block, the synthetic a priori has little to do with our dispute. My critique of the Austrians is not that their methods are “unscientific,” but that their most distinctive positions are false or overstated.