Inspired by the Abortion Threads thread, I figured this would be a nice one to make as well. This of course includes the famous Bryan Caplan “Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist” piece. So no, you’re not showing us anything new by posting it. (And as with the Abortion thread, I’m sure there are mor…

Of course there’s always arguments like this, refuted by such cogent arguments as “how can you know that economic growth matters?” or “empirical evidence cannot be used by economists (unless they’re investing in stocks or working for a bank in which case it’s praxeology!)”. Right wing economics wor…

Um, some guy cites a bunch of esoteric papers, and a bunch of amatuers on a forum fail to counter him (to your liking apparently), and that counts as a refutation? Well, lucky enough for us, our amatuers are pretty smart, and did well to refute the fallacious methodology Mustang’s arguments relied …

That’s page two, on page three some guy is left citing a source which shoots down his own point. There’s nothing to “admit”. He acknowledges that models aren’t perfect- big whoop. He then goes on to note that models are potentially very powerful. And that doesn’t do much to answer why models aren’…

I meant to say page 2. Other than that, I have no idea what the fuck your point is.

Property is very simple to defend. It’s unavoidable as a concept. I’ve been doing this over and over and over in these forums over the last couple of months, and if we can get it written up in a FAQ I’d participate. Property is an emergent category. It’s actually an owner->property relationship. T…

As a simple example of my post. Why do you get to eat that ham sandwich, if I want to eat it too? Why does your desire to eat it take precedence over mine? This question requires a mechanism for solution. If we don’t come up with social non-violent means of resolving the question, we end up with …

Marx addresses this point in the Grundrisse : The aim is, rather, to present production – see e.g. Mill – as distinct from distribution etc., as encased in eternal natural laws independent of history, at which opportunity bourgeois relations are then quietly smuggled in as the inviolable natural la…

Good, Marx understood that the property relationship exists regardless of how you define it, but it seems from the comment on shared ownership, that he misunderstands that conflict is inevitable and social groups develop mechanisms to arbitrate the disputes, and that those arbitrated decisions resu…

David, good posts. I’ve utilised some of these arguments myself before (on the inevitability of property.) Hoppe also bases a good deal of his argumentation on ethics on conflict and the inevitability of property in some shape or form.

@John I’ve seen some of his arguments, “Argumentation Ethics” and while I understand his point, my problem is I don’t find it to be binding or predictive about the various mechanisms we see in reality that solve the conflict problem. I’m going to continue to look and think. We’ll see where I get w…

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Fool_on_the_Hill September 18, 2012, 8:21pm 26

My best attempt at refuting Austrian Economics:

A Critique of Mises’s Praxeology

Judge for yourself as to whether it succeeds or not.

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