Praxeology

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

Boom, Bust, and the Future (19:39) January 18-19, 2002

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (27:02)

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

The role of the intellectual is a perennial question. Why do they act the way they do? Why are they hostile to the free market? Is the state really virtuous and the market really vicious? Mises thought the anti-capitalist mentality was rooted in envy. He also thought our entire culture was soaked in contempt for money-making.

Laurent Carnis describes Rothbard on the Economics of Crime at the 2003 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (44:14)

Mises was quite clear on the dividing line between psychology and praxeology:  Psychology deals with theories to explain why people choose certain ends, or how people will act in certain settings.  Praxeology, on the other hand, deals with the logical implications of the fact that people have ends and the fact that they act to achieve them. Robert Murphy explains.

When we really study the action axiom, writes Robert Murphy, we see that it summarizes an incredibly complicated, and tremendously important, fact about the world. In order to succeed in the present environment, it is simply indispensable for each of us to attribute intentions and reason to other beings. To put it simply, if you want to get anywhere in life, you have to assume that other humans act.