Praxeology

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Frank Shostak

While behavioral economics claims to be an effective way of measuring individual economic behavior, it actually sets back authentic economic analysis.

Thorsten Polleit

Yuval Noah Harari, who teaches history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, denies that free will exists. However, to deny free will is to deny human action itself.

Frank Shostak

Mainstream economists claim that data alone can explain economic actions. Austrians know that without theory, data explains nothing.

Per Bylund

After praising Mises for his work on socialism, Tyler Cowen goes on to claim Human Action is "cranky and dogmatic." "Brilliant and insightful" would have been more truthful.

Robert Zumwalt

Murray Rothbard understood that law can be a moral force only insofar as those living under the law reflect their own moral judgments.

Frank Shostak

It is easy to think of supply and demand curves as being key to economic analysis. In reality, they can't tell us much, and emphasizing them actually stands in the way of better understanding economic processes.

David Gordon

Another Marxist intellectual takes a shot at Mises. Like the other critics on the left, he understands little of what Mises wrote or believed.