Praxeology

David Gordon lays out praxeology—the science of human action—and the deductive method that sets Austrian economics apart. With characteristic wit, he distinguishes valid arguments from sound ones, weighs Rothbard’s “it’s just self-evident” grounding of the action axiom against Mises’s a priori approach, and shows why economic truths deduced by pure logic can still be genuinely surprising.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 20, 2025.

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