Yup, I'm a big proponent of Austrian Economics.
As far as I know the only time that something close to a pure Austrian Economic system was in place, was for a few years in the early days of the Federal Republic of Germany, albeit accidentally rather than consciously. During allied occupation after the war, the same socialist rules were applied as were present during the 3rd Reich. As Germans called more and more for freedom from occupation, the FRG was born, which had much more important things to do than interfering in the economy. As a result an almost immediate boom started.
The first evidence of government intervention was in the residential housing market. As a result, the reconstruction of residential property lagged way behind the reconstruction of commercial propoerty, because it was deemed that business owners didn't need 'protection' from landlords.
There is a great article about this on the von Mises Institute web-site:
http://mises.org/story/3635
What baffles me most, is how many people are so outspokenly in favour of the democratic process, but are at the same time completely against a totally free-market economy. In a totally free-market economy all market participant of all ages, sexes, races, etc. have an equal vote with every penny they spend or don't spend, thereby voting for or against a service or good. Is this not as democratic a system as is possible? How can it be argued that a small group of elected people can have the same collective knowledge as all market participants put together?
It certainly is nice to see some same-minded people around here.