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- Praxeology
- 2005
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Joseph R. Stromberg
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Presented as part of the Brown Bag Seminar series. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 3 March 2005.
Mises Daily
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Lucretius
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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behavior, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by
Mises Daily
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Jim Fedako
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The latest exploits of Lance Armstrong in this year’s Tour de France provide a solid backdrop for discussions contrasting the economic ideas of the Austrian School and the adherents of Public Choice. Public Choice is predicated on the belief that individual preferences can be known and quantified. From this simplistic view of Thymology, the Public
Mises Daily
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Bettina Bien Greaves
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This year marks the 100 th anniversary of Ayn Rand’s birth. Her books sold in the millions and were most effective in transforming a generation of readers into ardent anti-communists and strong capitalists. There is also a connection between the Austrian School and Rand, as shown by a new symposium from The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Spring
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Ludwig von Mises
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[Address delivered before the Economics Faculty of New York University at the Faculty Club on November 20, 1940, a few months after Dr. and Mrs. Ludwig von Mises arrived in New Jersey on August 2, 1940, as refugees from war-torn Europe. Reprinted in Planning for Freedom .] Your kind invitation to address you on my contributions to economic theory
Articles of Interest
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Murray N. Rothbard
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Praxeology rests on the fundamental axiom that individual human beings act, that is, on the primordial fact that individuals engage in conscious actions toward chosen goals. This concept of action contrasts to purely reflexive, or knee-jerk, behavior, which is not directed toward goals. The praxeological method spins out by verbal deduction the
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Murray N. Rothbard
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Ethics is the discipline, or what is called in classical philosophy the “science,” of what goals men should or should not pursue. All men have values and place positive or negative value judgments on goods, people, and events. Ethics is the discipline that provides standards for a moral critique of these value judgments. In the final analysis,
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Murray N. Rothbard
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All the positivist procedures are based on the physical sciences. It is physics that knows or can know its “facts” and can test its conclusions against these facts, while being completely ignorant of its ultimate assumptions. In the sciences of human action, on the other hand, it is impossible to test conclusions. There is no laboratory where