Philosophy and Methodology

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Gary Galles
Using economics is akin to birdwat­ching, except for the fact that few untrained birdwatch­ers presume they have enough expertise to “educate” others.
Henry Hazlitt
Individuals in the minority can't afford to be just as good as those in the majority. If we hope to convert the majority we have to be much better.
Frank Chodorov
Frank Chodorov was doubtful that communist economics could stand up to any sort of serious analysis.
Richard M. Ebeling
But when prices change today, what are they telling the various and relevant market participants about what it suggests will be the situation tomorrow?
Chris Calton
Mises understood that human history is not governed by fate and pre-determined ends, but by individual human actions with diverse motivations.
Paul Gottfried
David is one of the very few reviewers whose writings I can read with profit years after they were first printed.
Frank Chodorov

In exchange for an income tax King George III would have conceded every point made against him by the colonists.

Murray N. Rothbard
Mises conceives of the entrepreneur as the uncertainty-bearer. For Kirzner, entrepreneurship becomes reduced to the quality of alertness.
Chris Calton
While economics is concerned with purposeful action, history is different, and the historian asks why certain actions were undertaken.