Review of Austrian Economics
Author:
Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.
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[Originally published in the Review of Austrian Economics 2 (1988).] Ludwig von Mises observed, “It is customary to trace the was not one between a positivist and a nonpositivist view of the acquisition of economic knowledge. None of them saw economics as an empirical science in the narrow autocratic political control with increasing economic freedom and material growth would have permitted the forces of free trade and opportunity for material