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Paweł Nowakowski

Was Mises a Cynic?

Mises Wire

Author: Paweł Nowakowski

Online Publish Date: July 5, 2016

Category: Philosophy and Methodology, Subjectivism, Value and Exchange

Ludwig von Mises is sometimes criticized for having a weak ethical component in his theory of praxeology. His basic idea, as he famously developed it in Human Action , is that people act. By this he means that every purposive behavior is aimed at replacing a less satisfactory state of affairs with a more satisfactory one. It is impossible to

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