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Pseudo-Science and Historical Understanding

Ludwig von Mises
In the English language, the word “science” is usually applied only to the natural sciences. There is no doubt that there are fundamental differences between the natural sciences and the science of human action, sometimes called social science...
Psychiatry and Responsibility by Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins

Psychiatry and Responsibility

Helmut Schoeck James W. Wiggins
The authors who joined the discussions from which this volume resulted were invited on the basis of their earlier work, which had shown an awareness of the consequences of modern psychiatry for the character, values, and future form of our...
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Psychiatry and Responsibility by Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins

Psychiatry and Responsibility

Helmut Schoeck James W. Wiggins
The authors who joined the discussions from which this volume resulted were invited on the basis of their earlier work, which had shown an awareness of the consequences of modern psychiatry for the character, values, and future form of our...
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Psychology vs. Praxeology

Jörg Guido Hülsmann
(Excerpt from chapter 17 of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism , pp. 765–67.) Mises’s exposition of economic science differed decisively from all modern authors in that it drew a sharp line between praxeology and psychology. This has remained...
Recent Literature on Interest by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Recent Literature on Interest

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
This book by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk is a supplement to his two great books, Capital and Interest and The Positive Theory of Capital. Here he takes on alternatives to the Austrian theory he had previously presented, and thereby clarifies the case...
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Reply to Dr. Howden on Opportunity Costs

Eduard Braun
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 2 (Summer 2016) Howden (2016) dedicates a large part of his response to criticizing my way of dealing with and classifying the concept of opportunity costs in my book (Braun, 2014). I must start by...
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Requiem for Marx by Yuri Maltsev

Requiem for Marx

Yuri N. Maltsev
After the fall of communism, and certainly after this wide-ranging demolition of Marxism by Austrian scholars, who can possibly defend Marxism? Plenty of people, many of them smart otherwise but uneducated in economics. This book is the antidote...
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Resist Not Evil by Clarence Darrow

Resist Not Evil

Tags: Legal System, The Police State
Clarence Darrow
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive, sweeping, compelling, and unsettling case ever penned against what is laughingly called the criminal-justice system. It is a classic, devastating at its core, that is made newly available to speak...
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Resurrecting Marx

Tags: Intermediate
David Gordon
The collapse of socialism didn’t deter the Marxists, who moved on to invent new rationales for their system. But David Gordon has caught up with them, and used the knife of the Austrian School to cut their theories to pieces. A masterful...