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The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

Chapter 7: The Epistemological Roots of Monism

1. The Nonexperimental Character of Monism
2. The Historical Setting of Positivism
3. The Case of the Natural Sciences
4. The Case of the Sciences of Human Action
5. The Fallacies of Positivism

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Van Nostrand, New York, 1962

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

Ludwig von Mises

If Mises has an unheralded masterpiece, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science is it. There are two senses in which this book is indeed ultimate: it deals with the...

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Foreword to Second Edition by Israel M. Kirzner
Preface
Some Preliminary Observations Concerning Praxeology Instead of an Introduction
Chapter 1: The Human Mind
Chapter 2: The Activistic Basis of Knowledge
Chapter 3: Necessity and Volition
Chapter 4: Certainty and Uncertainty
Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics
Chapter 6: Further Implications of the Neglect of Economic Thinking
Chapter 7: The Epistemological Roots of Monism
Chapter 8: Positivism and the Crisis of Western Civilization

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Monopoly and Competition
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Private Property
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