I am a PHD student in Economics. The only time anyone mentioned Austrian economics to me was briefly in an economic history class when I was an undergrad. I recently noticed that it’s still around since common sense has compelled me to associate with libertarians and it seems to be making a resurgen…

Yes, or at least, they reject it in the sense you mean it. Some of the Aristotelians (sp?) around here are empiricist, who nonetheless eschew the positivism that characterizes today’s social sciences. No, and Austrians would turn around and say that the mainstream rejects subjectivism. I hardly s…

Yes and no. They (and by “they” I mean the hardline Misesian branch of the school, which most here including myself adhere to; the Hayekians and Lachmannians differ) reject the hypothetico-deductive model of theorising common in the natural sciences as applicable to the sphere of economics. They do…

I would add Praxeology and Understanding from Selgin on methodology, dl from this site, and Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective from Horwitz.

Thanks everyon, this has been helpful. I think I am an Austrian and nobody ever told me, haha. I will be around probably with further questions as they come up.

Regarding (1), I like Roderick Long’s argument that Mises’ attempt to derive economics apriori should be seen as different from “the claims of Descartes and Kant to have derived the laws of physical motion a priori,” (p.3) and as similar to what Frege did "for logic and mathematics – namely, to de-e…

Yeah, Roderick’s paper definitely clarifies the nature and scope of Mises’s work, as does Selgin’s.

I will read that soon, but I can’t help but ask. Is it your oppinion that “government is immoral, unnecessary and dosn’t work?” (your picture seems to contradict this for one thing.)

The point of the avatar is that government uses coercion to achieve its goals. It forces people to do things at the point of a gun. The point of the slogan is that government cannot achieve its goals efficiently, if it can achieve them at all. In the former, work is defined as “an activity in whic…

So it seems to me from reading Long that the statements about “marginalism” may be related to the idea that every decision comes down to a binary choice, or exchanging one situation for another. But I don’t get the impression that Mises or anyone else considers it inappropriate to then conceive of t…

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I started another post if you (or anyone else) is interested in discussing this issue (anarchy) further.

https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/is-there-a-role-for-government/6340

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