> "Human Free Will makes everything unpredictable!"
Well in practice it currently does. That's not to say that in principle we won't eventually develop a real quantitative science of human behavior -- but it's going to require some major advances in neurobiology.
> And then they go ahead and make predictions anyway, out of sheer ideology.
Yes, but the Austrian response is that all other economists are doing the same, while deceiving themselves that they have no ideology at all. So most economists' axioms and deductions remain unexamined and unchallenged.
Well in practice it currently does. That's not to say that in principle we won't eventually develop a real quantitative science of human behavior -- but it's going to require some major advances in neurobiology.
> And then they go ahead and make predictions anyway, out of sheer ideology.
Yes, but the Austrian response is that all other economists are doing the same, while deceiving themselves that they have no ideology at all. So most economists' axioms and deductions remain unexamined and unchallenged.