My purpose is not to initiate a discussion on Roy Weintraub's lecture on Economic  
Science Wars posted here; I will leave that to the experts.   
   
But I am curious to know what exactly is the status of "Austrian economics" in the  
economics profession/discipline? Since it is described as a separate school of  
economics, it is obviously not orthodox/neoclassical. It then has to be considered  
part of heterodoxy. This is an important question in light of Roy's comments about  
the need for the HET community to distance themselves from heterodox schools which  
he says are correctly perceived as hostile by mainstream economists. By all  
accounts, Austrian economists have a community of scholars which functions similarly to
all other subdisciplines in economics. Thanks.
   
Sumitra Shah