Sociologists seek a profundity and seriousness in their work that belies the constraints entailed in any consistent theoretical perspective. Switching implicitly, and perhaps unconsciously, from one paradigm to another provides an illusion of scope
This article deals with the epistemological bases for the axiom of action and more particularly with man’s capacity to have an a priori knowledge.
Confronted with the limitations of formalism, many economists have adopted alternative epistemological approaches which are supposed to favor a better understanding of economic phenomena. Among those, hermeneutics has enjoyed a certain success. Hermeneutics is a general theory of understanding based on the interpretation of an external reality testifying to an internal subjective reality. In economics, the interpretive act (or the process of theorization) consists in the ongoing dialogic confrontation between what contemporary economists know and what the individuals under scrutiny express of their own interpretation of the world.
The two main principles of the praxeological system elaborated by Mises are his concept of action and his epistemological apriorism. This paper illustrates these principles in the field of the sociology of delinquency.
That Ludwig von Mises was the outstanding champion of laizes-faire and the free-market economy in this century is well know and needs no d
The present article is a slightly expanded version of one of the critiques of Professor Laurence S.
Murray N.
Barry Smith discusses Aristotelian methodology and apriorism in Austrian Economics.
The law & economics movement has become one of the most dynamic schools within economics.
Kinsella and Tinsley (2004) is beautifully written, infused with keen insights, in some ways solidly predicated upon libertarianism and praxeology,
