Praxeology Over Positivism
Professional economists’ certainty with regard to models crafted out of fragmentary data is misguided and has hastened the expansion of the total state.
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The Justice of Economic Efficiency
In the following I present an a priori justification for the thesis that those means recommended by political economy are indeed efficient means for just ends.
How Mises Rebuilt Economics
What is the logical status of the law of marginal utility or of the quantity theory of money? To answer this, Mises had to confront empiricism and historicism.
A Priori Theory and Sound Money
A priori theory shows us that deviating from the sound-money principle leads to disastrous economic, social, and political damage.
In Defense of Mises’s Utilitarianism
When a moral code is adopted in society, approbation and good will for following the code, as well as reprobation and ill will for violating it, become common.
The Utilitarian Foundation of Morality
Do you find utilitarianism convincing, or do you subscribe to natural-law or argumentation ethics instead? They need not contradict.
Human Action Is Purposeful Action
The knowledge that human action is purposeful action has nothing to do with psychology.
Praxeology: The Method of Economics
Recorded at Mises University 2011. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
Cardinal Utility: It’s Worse Than You Thought
Preferences are ordinal, and our analysis has to reflect that simple, unavoidable fact.
