# Economic School of Thought Quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708 "2011-10-15T02:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708/21 "2011-10-18T11:42:37Z")
I came out "Moderate Keynesian 23 Keynesian, 15 Chicago, 8 Austrian You have some knowledge of economics, but believe the freemarket is unstable and/or unfair. You would make a good economics bureaucrat in a stagnating social democracy somewhere. You aren’t hostile to freedom, though, and likely just want to make sure the right, just, decisions are made." Which is just bullshit. There weren’t enough questions, or enough options to get to my Collectivist core, clearly. Because I _am_ hostile to (Keynesian-style) economic freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708/22 "2011-10-18T12:41:37Z")
Economics Student (46 Keynesian, 38 Chicago, 15 Austrian) but frankly the whole thing was irritating. The use of exclamation marks in some of the responses suggested a less-than-objective approach to the test formulation, and when I hit the Great Depression question I gave up any hope of a useful result. I’m probably a bit more Keynesian than the result reflects but in more than a few questions I didn’t agree with any of the responses and went for the least worst option. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708/23 "2011-10-19T00:14:28Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > \*Balanced Freedom > > 54 Keynesian, 31 Chicago, 31 Austrian > > You are in favor of a free market, and quite a bit of individual freedom. That said, you don’t really fit in any one school of thought. A little Keynesianism, a little Chicago School methods, and a bit of Austrianism all sprinkled around. You just know you want a working market, and you support it, but you have no consistent methodology guiding you.\* > > Sure. I just roll with the times. I got “Balanced Freedom” as well, but my numbers were quite different: 23 Keynesian, 31 Chicago, 46 Austrian It looks like there’s a whole lot of ‘middle ground’ in this quiz. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708/24 "2011-10-19T07:53:02Z")
Balanced Freedom here too. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708/25 "2011-10-19T12:04:35Z")
Economics Student as well. Apparently being practical and evaluating each situation individually is a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708/26 "2011-10-19T21:33:59Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Which is just bullshit. There weren’t enough questions, or enough options to get to my Collectivist core, clearly. Because I _am_ hostile to (Keynesian-style) economic freedom. I think they kept the test to serious schools of economic theory. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708/27 "2011-10-20T00:42:27Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I think they kept the test to serious schools of economic theory. Marxism in the Young Earthism of economics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/economic-school-of-thought-quiz/599708.md?page=1)