Two divergent approaches to the social sciences and to liberalism By John Saudino 6 September 2021 1 Preface For some time now there has been interest on the part of some philosophers of science to reconcile Karl Popper and the…
by Scott B. Nelson 24 February 2020 This article was originally published on 23 February 2020 on the Austrian Economics Center Blog on the occasion of Austrian School Carl Menger’s 180th birthday. In 1871 the balance of power in Europe…
by Scott B. Nelson 30 January 2020 The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideasby Janek WassermanYale University Press, 368 pp., $35.00 This review was originally published on 30 January 2020 on the Austrian Economics Center Blog.…
The Methodological Missteps of Friedrich von Hayek, and the Popperian Cure By John Saudino 14 October 2019 This is the second article in a three-part series. See Part I here. 3. Conjectures and Refutations and The Poverty of Historicism: Popper’s…
The Methodological Missteps of Friedrich von Hayek, and the Popperian Cure By John Saudino 3 October 2019 To the Hayekians and Austrian Economists of all schools[1] 1. Introduction: The fundamental nature of this topic is complex, writing an introduction thereto…
By John Saudino 1 August 2019 The title is a quote from a speech by Senator Al Franken in the Senate. After demonstrating the effectiveness of Keynesian (consumer demand based) economic policy citing extensive empirical evidence, he said the following:…