Chronological Bibliography
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
Mises reiterates his commitment to the deductive, praxeological method in economics. Although this work largely repeats Mises's earlier methodological views, his remarks on Karl Popper are original and important. He does not attach much significance to Popper's "falsification" criterion as opposed to the "verification" of orthodox logical positivism. This is merely a variant form of positivism. If Popper wishes to claim that praxeological laws, since they are necessarily true, are "unscientific" (because unfalsifiable), this is merely an irrelevant matter of definition.
Mises includes some sharp criticisms of the logical positivists, in particular the socialist Otto Neurath. The claim by Professor Don Lavoie that in this work Mises moved toward basing the axiom of action on a consensus standard of truth is entirely in error.
Ludwig von Mises:
An Annotated Bibliography
David Gordon
