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