The present essay addresses the epistemic difficulties involved in achieving consensus with respect to the Hayek-Keynes debate. It is argued that the debate cannot be settled on the basis of the observable evidence; or, more precisely, that the empirical implications of the relevant theories are...

El reciente auge de la neuroeconomía ha abierto una serie de preguntas sobre el impacto que esta nueva disciplina puede tener sobre la forma en que se hace teoría económica. Este trabajo busca resaltar la relevancia que la metodología en ciencia económica tiene como herramienta...

This essays explores various aspects of Tony Lawson's claim that the discipline of economics would benefit from a more explicit, systematic and sustained concern with ontology, that is with (philosophical analysis of) the nature of (what exists in) the social world, than it has hitherto displayed

The discipline of economics can benefit a more explicit, systematic and sustained concern with ontology, that is, with the philosophical analysis of the nature of the social world. Contrary to the argument advanced in an article recently published in Critical Review (Steele 2005), the...

A praxeological theory of interpersonal action. This theory is a proposed extension of Misesian praxeology into the realm of direct, person-to-person social interaction. The goal of praxeology is to discover and to make explicit “exact laws” of human action of the general form “if you do...

In this essay it is argued 1) that Ludwig von Mises's conception of thymology refers to the content of mental actions, and 2) that by Mises's own theory, standard economic propositions are not a priori propositions

One of the pillars of Hayekian social thought is Hayek’s contention that study of the market cannot be a priori. But Hayek seems not to have realized the implications of his own conception of the Pure Logic of Choice. He didn’t realize that the method of deductive analysis he envisioned...