Dear all, For a recent scholarship of the Austrian School of Economics, see, for instance, the following, in which one finds not only US, but also European contributions: Modern Applications of Austrian Thought, ed. by J. Backhaus, Routledge, 2005. Perhaps the introduction of the editor below might be somewhat related to the ongoing discussion on the list. Quote: "Austrian economics is often conceived as an ideology. People are thought to stir in the older mud of unintelligible writings, and henceforth disagree among another. It is also often said that Austrian economis is not empirical. With this book, I try to dispel all three of these notions." (Preface, xiv.) This seems to me an interesting and also fruitful research programme in the future. Of course I am not quite sure whether the empirical direction is thought to be relevant in the camp of the "Austrian" members of economics. A comment from a non-member of the camp, but still deeply involved in the study of Austrian School of Economics. Yukihiro Ikeda