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Economic Science and the Austrian Method

Economic Science and the Austrian Method by Hans-Hermann Hoppe is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.

Author
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
First published
1988
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
93
ISBN
9780945466208
License
Published here by permission. The work itself reserves all rights; it is not Creative Commons.

Austrian theory & method

A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics.

Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approach head on. Hans-Hermann Hoppe rests his argument on the Kantian idea of the "synthetic apriori" proposition, thereby expanding an aim of Mises's in the methodology section of Human Action.

Hoppe is the Austrian School's most prominent methodologist, and here he is in top form. He combines a rigorous scientific explanation with fantastic passion and rhetoric.

These lectures astonished students at the Mises University when they were first delivered. They were later turned into this monograph, which has been a staple of Austrian pedagogy ever since.

The volume includes:

  • Preface, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
  • I. Praxeology and Economic Science
  • II. On Praxeology and the Praxeological Foundations of Epistemology

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 1949) is a German-American economist and philosopher who completed his dissertation under Jürgen Habermas before moving to the United States and studying under Murray Rothbard, whose chair at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas he… This archive holds 17 of Hoppe's works.

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7 chapters · 24,162 words

  1. Copyright Page
  2. Preface
  3. Praxeology and Economic Science
  4. ON PRAXEOLOGY AND THE PRAXEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF EPISTEMOLOGY I
  5. Recommended Readings
  6. Index
  7. About the Author
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe b. 1949

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