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Many people today want to know whether or not there is any evidence that proves that the Austrian theory of the business cycle is correct. Many empricists and positivists critique the Austrian school for being too reliant on logic and reason and not reliant enough on evidence. Epistemological arguments...
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In note #37 of In Defense of Extreme Rationalism, Hoppe refers to “the preceding conclusion regarding the characteristic of causality as an action-produced phenomenon …” Revisiting the discussion that precedes note #37, I cannot find quite this conclusion. I find the conclusions that...
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OK, here is one thing that has puzzled me. From an epistemological standpoint, isn't the Austrian School empirical? I mean, aren't logical axioms self evident, and something that is self evident based on our experience, making it an empirical observation? AFAIK, the empirical school of thought...
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may be of use to people Anti-Psychologism in Economics: Wittgenstein and Mises Roderick Long Mises’ idea of a universally valid economic science came under fire from all directions and many such critics bolstered their position by assailing the notion of a universally valid logic as well with the...