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Is Politics a Subfield of Praxeology?

In this paper from the Summer 2015 issue of The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Matei Apăvăloaei argues that politics/political science can form a sub-field of praxeology:

Throughout his works on methodology, Mises presented economics as part of a more comprehensive science of human action, praxeology. The relation between the two was hierarchical. Praxeology encompassed economics, which was human action under the conditions of monetary calculation, together with any other number of disciplines that could be derived from the categories of human action under specifically assumed conditions. This paper argues that politics/political science can form a sub-field of praxeology.

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