Economics, Not Physics
Posted in From the Archives on 23 May 2011
Stats: 403 views and 2 Comments Ludwig von Mises was one of the most prominent economists of his day. Still, for the most of his career Mises’s methodology was somewhat out of sync with the rest of the profession. By the time he had published his first major work presenting his methodological views, 1933’s Epistemological Problems ...
Posted in From the Archives on 23 May 2011
Stats: 403 views and 2 Comments Ludwig von Mises was one of the most prominent economists of his day. Still, for the most of his career Mises’s methodology was somewhat out of sync with the rest of the profession. By the time he had published his first major work presenting his methodological views, 1933’s Epistemological Problems ...
Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises
Posted in Document on 20 May 2011
Stats: 1,334 views and No Comments Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises. Published originally in the Journal of Social Philosophy & Jurisprudence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1942, while Mises was working for the National Bureau of Economic Research. The essay examines the differences between the social and natural sciences.
Posted in Document on 20 May 2011
Stats: 1,334 views and No Comments Social Science vs. Natural Science by Ludwig von Mises. Published originally in the Journal of Social Philosophy & Jurisprudence, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1942, while Mises was working for the National Bureau of Economic Research. The essay examines the differences between the social and natural sciences.
Methodology
Posted in Audio, Media on 18 July 2010
Stats: 259 views and No Comments Professor Paul Cwik lectures on methodology, often ignored in the economics profession, but this is an important tool for doing science correctly. Professor Cwik builds a strong argument in defense of methodology. This is a link to the Power Point presentation -- Methodology 2010.
Posted in Audio, Media on 18 July 2010
Stats: 259 views and No Comments Professor Paul Cwik lectures on methodology, often ignored in the economics profession, but this is an important tool for doing science correctly. Professor Cwik builds a strong argument in defense of methodology. This is a link to the Power Point presentation -- Methodology 2010.
Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize in Economics
Posted in Articles on 15 October 2009
Stats: 1,009 views and 2 Comments Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also one of the most iconoclastic thinkers to win the prize. (She shared the prize with Oliver Williamson.) Professor Ostrom’s work focuses on the mechanisms of self-governance that operate in different societies. ...
Posted in Articles on 15 October 2009
Stats: 1,009 views and 2 Comments Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also one of the most iconoclastic thinkers to win the prize. (She shared the prize with Oliver Williamson.) Professor Ostrom’s work focuses on the mechanisms of self-governance that operate in different societies. ...
