Economics Questions

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Koen Swinkels — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:17:20 GMT

GilesStratton:

I think this should be pinned for all to post summaries of Austrian works, but great work to the OP.

thanks!

Off topic: are you the same Koen Swinkels that Molyneux is so fond of?

Yeah, that's me. Our BFF badges were taken away some years ago.

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Harry Felker — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:31:38 GMT

Wow... that is a bit of work....

Thanks for posting this, I have already read a couple, it is helping a lot with my understanding....

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

hayekianxyz — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:30:43 GMT

I think this should be pinned for all to post summaries of Austrian works, but great work to the OP.

Off topic: are you the same Koen Swinkels that Molyneux is so fond of?

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

jtucker — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:28:23 GMT

Fantastic work. thank you

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Koen Swinkels — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:26:03 GMT

Daniel J. Sanchez:

Koen Swinkels:

The Philosophical origins of Austrian Economics, David Gordon

Thanks Koen,

I have a question about this one, for you or anybody else who could answer.

Gordon says,

"Logical positivism (Carnap, Karl Menger, Schlick, Neurath, etc.) attacked synthetic a priori and deductivism."

Menger was a positivist? That doesn't seem right. Also he was against deductivism? His method seemed highly deductive, as I wrote in my post Economic character of higher order goods and the deductive method of Menger.

yeah, that's Karl, not Carl.

Also Gordon says that methodological individualism stems from Aristotle. But he also says that Mises was not influenced by Aristotle. That doesn't seem to follow since, in Human Action, Mises explicitly promotes methodological individualism.

but ideas around methodological individualism also occurred in Locke and Bentham, and many others. Schumpeter appears to have introduced the term itself, and since appr. the 1930s Austrians like Hayek, Machlup, and Mises started to use the term to apply to their own methodology (Schumpeter's use of the term was a bit different) Just sayin' that the influence need not have occured directly or even indirectly from Aristotle.

Check "Meanings of Methodological Individualism" by Hodgson (the above paragraph is based on that article)

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

hayekianxyz — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:50:38 GMT

Daniel J. Sanchez:

Thanks Giles.

I thought the "K" was a typo.

Lol, if it's from the Gordon paper, then it'd be amusing, since Gordon himself chastised somebody for calling the economist Karl Menger.

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

hayekianxyz — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:50:36 GMT

Daniel J. Sanchez:

Thanks Giles.

I thought the "K" was a typo.

Lol, if it's from the Gordon paper, then it'd be amusing, since Gordon himself chastised somebody for calling the economist Karl Menger.

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Daniel J. Sanchez — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:42:25 GMT

Thanks Giles.

I thought the "K" was a typo.

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

hayekianxyz — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:34:55 GMT

Karl Menger, the mathematician was the son of Carl Menger the Austrian economist and teacher of Bohm Bawerk.

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Daniel J. Sanchez — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:12:21 GMT

Koen Swinkels:

The Philosophical origins of Austrian Economics, David Gordon

Thanks Koen,

I have a question about this one, for you or anybody else who could answer.

Gordon says,

"Logical positivism (Carnap, Karl Menger, Schlick, Neurath, etc.) attacked synthetic a priori and deductivism."

Menger was a positivist? That doesn't seem right. Also he was against deductivism? His method seemed highly deductive, as I wrote in my post Economic character of higher order goods and the deductive method of Menger.

Also Gordon says that methodological individualism stems from Aristotle. But he also says that Mises was not influenced by Aristotle. That doesn't seem to follow since, in Human Action, Mises explicitly promotes methodological individualism. Also the entire teleological approach of praxeology seems eminently Aristotelean.

Can someone resolve these cognitive dissonances for me?

Thanks.

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

phrizek — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:25:36 GMT

Incredible job. Well done.

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Sage — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:57:49 GMT

Wow, this must have been a big project. Good work!

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Koen Swinkels — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:05:21 GMT

Okay, I think that's it.

Because there is an upload limit of 64kb I had to split up the longer summaries, and I compressed all the pdf's big time.

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Koen Swinkels — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:02:04 GMT

The Historical Setting of the Austrian School of Economics, Ludwig von Mises

Re: My Summaries of the Required Reading for Mises University

Koen Swinkels — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:58:05 GMT

Praxeology and Understanding (part 2), George Selgin