Philosophy and Methodology

Two Austrian economists from Sweden provide commentary on the Swedish central bank's choice for this year's economics Nobel Prize.

While Murray Rothbard believed that self-ownership formed the basis for private property rights, other philosophers disagree.

Rothbard warned against the assumption that because democracies are “better” than dictatorships, they are necessarily more peace loving.

Austrian economics stands apart from the economic mainstream in its deductive approach to economic analysis.

Much of modern neoclassical economic theory depends upon assumptions that do not reflect real world conditions. Austrian economists, however, know that realistic assumptions matter.

While philosophy is a discipline that has been hijacked by the Left, once in a while a philosopher comes along and surprises us.

While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.

Free trade has its enemies on the left and the right. However, despite the supposed “sophistication” of their antitrade arguments, when we break them down, those arguments really are sophistry.

Can there be a bridge between Heideggerian metaphysics and practical political philosophy?

While Murray Rothbard believed that self-ownership formed the basis for private property rights, other philosophers disagree.