What makes you think that &quot;modern economists&quot; are more likely than the average person to (i) want to make us all into farmers and kill off intellectuals and (ii) have any chance of succeeding? All the available evidence would suggest that economists are disproportionately unlikely to favour agrarian dictatorship and no better placed than the average person to succeed.<p>In fact &quot;unlikely to favour large scale social engineering backed by force&quot; is about the only thing Austrian economics has in common with mainstream modern economics...