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the "facts" of the social sciences. Next, we examine several areas of Popper's work as well as some of Hayek's ideas and …Popper recognizes that there are, at least, two versions of his "Rationality Principle" (RP) yet he does not explain … either how they relate to other parts of his works or which version social scientists should adopt. We argue that Popper …
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Die ökonomische Theorie hat mit Moral wenig oder gar nichts zu tun. In den gängigen Lehrbüchern der Mikroökonomie findet sich in den Stichwortverzeichnissen kein Eintrag zu Moral oder Ethik. Die Studierenden lernen über die Wirtschaft nachzudenken, aber sie lernen dabei nicht, systematisch...
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The present essay investigates F.A. Hayek's epistemology and his methodology of sciences of complex phenomena for … implications relevant to an explanation of Hayek's own socalled "epistemic turn." The thesis defended here is that Hayek …
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F.A Hayek is one of the most important and influential advocates of liberalism in the 20th century. His theory is … control and appears critical of every form of interventionism. At the same time Hayek also defends the necessity to improve or … even to constitute a liberal order. This seminal tension, between an evolutionary strand and a designing strand in Hayek …
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Begrifflichkeit wurde erstmals in der Österreichischen Schule der Nationalökonomie, und zwar von Ludwig Mises und Friedrich Hayek, und …
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discuss its compatibility with two strands of Karl Popper's philosophy: his theory of knowledge and learning, and his … justified along the same lines as Popper's RP. We then argue that, our position as to the resolution of this paradox … notwithstanding, Popper's philosophy provides a metatheoretical framework with which we can evaluate the REH. Within this framework …
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There is something extreme about Mises' apriorism, namely, his epistemological justification of the a priori element(s) of economic theory. His critics have long recognized and attacked the extremeness of Mises' epistemology of a priori knowledge. However, several of his defenders have glossed...
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The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between the praxeology of L. von Mises and the theory of action of Alfred Schütz. Because of the importance that Mises’ theory has had on economics it is interesting to highlight the coincidences and synergies which exist between the...
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This paper suggests that personal trust is best understood is a discursively constructed social relation that arises when interaction between people is governed by the norm of reciprocity (according to which one good turn deserves another and that people should treat others as they themselves...
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Two of the most influential concepts in social science over the past two decades have been 'social embeddedness' and 'social capital'. This essay introduces a special issue of the Review of Austrian Economics in which those concepts are examined from the perspective provided by Austrian...
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