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Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 6:15amSanction this postReply
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Well, that second link is very worthwhile, but the preview is
here.



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Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 9:09amSanction this postReply
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The official view is that economics is just one branch of praxeology; but considering how broadly the
Austrians define economics, it’s not clear what other branches of praxeology there could be.
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Certainly has been my view for all these many years...


I haven't gotten too far into this yet [time constraints from other matters], but from what have read, this preview is rather interesting... there is certainly something to be said of looking into the past from a distance of time, to better assess relationships among participants of the era, and their influences,without the burden of stereotyping so often prevalent 'at the scene' so to speak...
(Edited by robert malcom on 3/14, 9:26am)


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Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 3:28pmSanction this postReply
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I read 20+ pages. I thought the polylogism/psychologism discussion interesting, but was left unsatisfied by the author's settling on various quotes of the various people's  views, rather than stripping the issues down, and, especially, putting logic, epistemology, psychology, and economics into their appropriate conceptual relations with respect to the idea of human action.

If I understand the author's project, he is relying on what are self-characterized as tenuous, controversial relations between and influences upon certain thinkers by certain other ones. That, in a central position in a work of intellectual originality disappoints me. If this were an historical analysis, maybe.

I must repeat, I read only that much, and I have never studied economics, so I'm not at all familiar with what is the usual fare in dissertations. I wish the author well.


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