Philosophy and Methodology

The economics profession has attempted to achieve the degree of success in understanding, explaining, and predicting events in the social world that physicists and engineers have achieved

Nonetheless, Rothbard and Mises have been criticized by Nozick (1977) and Caplan (1999), for inconsistency in admitting the concept of indifference into economic analysis after all, even if only indirectly. 

The author wishes to convince the intelligent general public that contemporary neoclassical economics is not only virile, rather than sterile, but is of crucial importance for public policy.

In his important contribution, Jörg Guido Hülsmann (2003) attempted to redefine the method of economic science. According to him most economic laws are counterfactual in their nature

Volume 5, No. 4 (Winter 2002)

Binary economics is a theory of economic growth that places emphasis upon the distribution of capital, rather than the quantity of capital or the productivity of labor. 

Macroeconomics has developed over seventy years from John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory to the currently fashionable mathematical models that feature efficient markets and rational expectations.

Robbins contributed the most definitive modern definition of the discipline, one which is now widely accepted. Although limited by his overly restrictive assumptions on information, 

This Festschrift is dedicated to one of the outstanding champions of liberty in Germany.  For most of his scientific life, Gerard Radnitzky has been known as a philosopher of science in the tradition of Karl Popper. 

Amartya Sen's wide-ranging book grasps a point ignored by many economists.  Economists are generally alive to the virtues of markets, and few since the collapse of communism have a good word to say about central planning.