Positivism and Behaviorism
For the positivist, a man is a machine like an automobile, and the positivist denies to his fellow men the faculty of choosing ends and the means to attain these ends.
For the positivist, a man is a machine like an automobile, and the positivist denies to his fellow men the faculty of choosing ends and the means to attain these ends.
If reading Human Action is too daunting, read this chapter-by-chapter summary of one of the greatest economic treatises ever written.
Civilization is an achievement of the 'bourgeois' spirit, not of the spirit of war and conquest.
G.P. Manish highlights the life and work of theologian and scholar Philip Wicksteed (1844–1927).
Some propositions need only to be stated to become at once evident to the self, and the action axiom is just such a proposition.
Furthering the discussion about “How can we reconcile the idea that there are laws of human action, that manifest themselves in market prices and the structure of production, with the idea that there is also freedom of choice?”
This is a discussion of the debate on indifference within the remit of praxeology, as unfolded between Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Walter Block.
Jeff Deist and Michael Watson discuss the reconciliation of ethical worldviews with value-free economics.
Statistics and empirical data aren't ignored by Austrians. Rather, they are relegated to their proper place in the economic edifice.