Roderick T. Long

Articles

Review of Ethics as Social Science: the Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation, by Leland B. Yeager

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Roderick T. Long

Volume 6, No. 1 (Spring 2003) Ethics and economics need to learn from one another. But what is it, precisely, that needs to be learned? Here Yeager’s answer is more controversial; he defends what...

Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Roderick T. Long

Volume 9, No. 3 (Fall 2006) Austrians have frequently criticized neoclassical economics for the unrealistic character of its assumptions. Neoclassical models are typically “idealized”; that is, they...

Editorial to Symposium: Market, Anarchism, Pro and Con

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Roderick T. Long

An introduction by Roderick T. Long to the 21st volume of the Journal of Libertarian Studies. As mentioned above, this issue focuses on the anarchy/minarchy debate. Volume 21, Number 1 (2007)

Publications

Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections

07/20/2005 Roderick T. Long

This short monograph is from an informal talk presented at the 2004 Mises University, and transcribed by Revi N. Nair.

Media

2. The Praxeological Case for an Ultimate End

06/27/2006 Roderick T. Long

Claims of ultimate ends, like happiness or well-being, are impossible, says Hobbes. In this life, the fact that you are still acting shows that you have not achieved any ultimate end. Does action really express dissatisfaction? You can act to keep something happening, rather than to try to change things.

Economics and Its Ethical Assumptions

08/08/2007 Roderick T. Long

Recorded at Mises University 2007.

3. Free Will: Two Paradoxes of Choice

06/27/2006 Roderick T. Long

Economics deals with the preferences you are actually acting on. The judgment you are not acting on could still be around. So, action does not imply total judgment.

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