First published 1976
Epistemological Problems of Economics
Epistemological Problems of Economics by Ludwig von Mises is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Ludwig von Mises
- First published
- 1976
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 342
- ISBN
- 0945466366
- Publisher
- Mises Institute
- License
- Unverified
"The characteristic feature of this age of destructive wars and social disintegration is the revolt against economics."So writes Ludwig von Mises in his most thorough defense of the method and scope of economic science. In this treatise, he argues that the core intellectual errors of statism, socialism, protectionism, racism, irrationalism can be found in a revolt against economic logic and its special character. What Mises identified persists to this day, as politicians, central bankers, intellectuals continue to deny that economic reality is anything with which they should concern themselves. Mises's writings here appear as a wake up call. There is no denying economic reality any more than we can deny gravity or some other force of nature. Economic law is a force that cannot and will not be ignored, no matter how much people try. Epistemological Problems of Economics was original published in 1933, a period when the social sciences and economic policy were undergoing upheaval. The classical view of economics as a deductive science, along with the laissez-faire policies implied by that view, were being displaced by positivism and economic planning. Mises set out to put the classical view on a firmer foundation. In so doing, he examines a range of philosophical problems associated with economics. Mises goes further to delineate the scope of the general science of human action. This treatise, out of print for many years, is brought back by the Mises Institute in a 3rd edition, with a comprehensive introduction by Jörg Guido Hülsmann.
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- Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian School of economics and a prolific author on economic theory, epistemology, and political philosophy. This archive holds 69 of von Mises's works.
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This is an introduction that I wrote a few years ago for a new edition of Mises' book Epistemological Problems of Economics.
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I think it's in the Epistemological Problems of Economics, but he sort of gives a nice little introduction
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Frank H. Knight: The Forgotten Austrian
Sorry, Mises says in one of his essays that's in Epistemological Problems of Economics, he says that the three marginalist schools, those of Menger, Jevons and Volra, quote, differ only in their mode of expressing the same fundamental idea and …
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Robbins vs. Harrod: The War Over Epistemology, 1938
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The American edition eventually appeared under the somewhat different title of Epistemological Problems of Economics.
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