Are You an Austrian?

[Dave Sinkula]

http://mises.org/quiz.aspx

Your score is: 74/100

1. What is the correct economic status of private property?
   Your answer: The Austrian answer.
2. What is the proper method to conduct research in economic science?
   Your answer: The Chicago answer
3. What is the reason for the interest rate, and should the rate be regulated?
   Your answer: Chicago answer
4. What is the economic impact of saving?
   Your answer: The Chicago answer.
5. What is the source of economic value?
   Your answer: Chicago answer
6. What is money and how does it originate?
   Your answer: Austrian answer.
7. What causes the business cycle?
   Your answer: Keynesian/Neoclassical answer
8. What is the right anti-recession policy?
   Your answer: Austrian answer
9. How viable is socialism?
   Your answer: Austrian answer.
10. What is the proper size and scope of government?
    Your answer: Chicago answer
11. Who should regulate consumer products and how?
    Your answer: Austrian answer.
12. What are wages?
    Your answer: Austrian answer.
13. What causes economic growth?
    Your answer: Austrian answer.
14. What is your view of economics and the environment?
    Your answer: The Austrian answer.
15. What do taxes fund?
    Your answer: The Keynesian/Neoclassical answer.
16. What caused the Great Depression and how effective was the New Deal?
    Your answer: Austrian answer.
17. Do markets create and sustain monopolies and what should be done about it?
    Your answer: Chicago answer
18. What is the role of equality and inequality?
    Your answer: Austrian answer.
19. What is your view of free trade and globalization?
    Your answer: Austrian answer.
20. What is the function of the stock market?
    Your answer: Chicago answer
21. What are labor unions for?
    Your answer: Chicago answer
22. What are the economic implications of national defense?
    Your answer: Chicago answer
23. What about goods like education and roads?
    Your answer: Austrian answer.
24. What are the economic implications of warfare?
    Your answer: Chicago answer
25. Who serves society best?
    Your answer: The Austrian answer.

Hmm. The questions are quite wordy -- I wonder how I'd do on a second or third pass?

But then I guess this plays out much like I expected -- going in I felt that I wasn't quite Austrian and wasn't quite Chicago. I was most surprised to see "Keynesian/Neoclassical" responses.

[Ene Uran]

Here is a true Austrian in action.