AFTER DAVIDSON, WHO NEEDS THE AUSTRIANS - REPLY TO DAVIDSON

Paul Davidson asserts that Post Keynesians could fare just as well without insights from their Austrian colleagues. He's wrong. Radical subjectivists within both schools of thought have something to gain through dialogue, as evidenced by the efforts of Kenneth Boulding, G.L.S. Shackle, and Ludwig Lachmann. Many Austrian and Post Keynesian economists share a common methodological principle of radical subjectivism, which emphasizes nonergodic constructs and systems indeterminacy, and each school can gain from the insights of the other when asking such questions as why capitalism generates recessions and depressions and why capitalism generates any degree of order at all.