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Carl Menger: pionero de la «teoría empírica»

BiographiesAustrian Economics OverviewHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

02/05/2022Mises Daily Articles
El de Menger era un método analítico que comenzaba con los fenómenos empíricos más pequeños y procedía lógicamente a partir de ellos. Lo llamó «método empírico».
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Carl Menger: Pioneer of "Empirical Theory"

BiographiesAustrian Economics OverviewHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

02/05/2022Mises Daily Articles
Menger's was an analytical method that began with the smallest empirical phenomena and proceeded logically from there. He called this the "empirical method."
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Conscription as an Omen

Legal SystemWar and Foreign PolicyInterventionism

02/01/2022Mises Daily Articles
Robert Taft fought military conscription in 1946, stating, "If adopted, it will color our whole future. We shall have fought to abolish totalitarianism in the world, only to set it up in the United States."
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Cómo los valores conducen a la acción

Austrian Economics OverviewHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPraxeology

01/06/2022Mises Daily Articles
No hay que olvidar que la escala de valores o de deseos sólo se manifiesta en la realidad de la acción. Estas escalas no tienen una existencia independiente al margen del comportamiento real de los individuos.
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Can Dikes Be Private? An Argument against Public Goods Theory

Free MarketsWorld HistoryEntrepreneurship

12/18/2021Mises Daily Articles
It is striking to realize that dikes were not only built without the state, but also that the dike areas can be regarded as seceding territories, which came close to private-law societies.
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Caos planificado

The Police StateHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsOther Schools of Thought

12/04/2021Mises Daily Articles
En propuestas como subamos los precios agrícolas, subamos los salarios, bajemos las ganancias, reduzcamos los sueldos de los ejecutivos, el «nosotros» se refiere en última instancia a la policía.
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Currency Debasement and Social Collapse

Free MarketsWorld HistoryInterventionismMoney and Banking

09/29/2021Mises Daily Articles
The Roman Empire crumbled to dust because it lacked the spirit of liberalism and free enterprise.
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Classical Natural Law and Libertarian Theory

Legal SystemHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

07/07/2021Mises Daily Articles
Bruno Leoni's Freedom and the Law can be the starting-point for a more "classical" understanding of libertarian natural law actually rooted in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition.
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Carl Menger's Theory of the Origin of Money

Free MarketsHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

06/28/2021Mises Daily Articles
The only relevant thing is that indirect exchange and money exist because the conditions for their existence were and are present.
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Consent of the Governed?

Legal SystemPolitical Theory

06/17/2021Mises Daily Articles
It appears upon sober reflection that the whole idea is as fanciful as the unicorn. No one in his right mind, save perhaps an incurable masochist, would voluntarily consent to be treated as governments actually treat their subjects.
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