The dominant model of exchange between economists and our cousins in the other social sciences is export. We seldom learn or even try to learn from our compatriots. We peddle our analysis (of everything from the virtuous to the profane), our methods (too often borrowed from the natural sciences)...

In a recent contribution to this journal Severino Fratini (2019) offers a critique of our work on Austrian Capital Theory on the grounds that our conception of capital and “roundaboutness”. In this comment we explain why we think this criticism is wrong

Traces of the Austrian capital theory may be detected in the modern growth theory. Yet, it was not generally accepted as it contains many confusions and unsettled points. This paper tries to clarify some of the misunderstandings that are present in this theory. It clarifies the notion of...