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Supporting Rafe's project, I suggest that some of Popper's work adds credibility to the action axiom and integrates economics more closely with the natural sciences: http://radicalliberal.blogspot.com/2013/03/ludwig-von-mises-action-axiom-and.html
Implications of Machlup's Interpretation of Mises's Epistemology
We argue that Machlup's (1955) interpretation of Mises’s epistemology is at least, if not more, plausible than Rothbard's (1957). The implications of Machlup’s interpretation of Mises and Austrian epistemology affect Austrians, non-Austrians and how they relate to each other. Machlup’s interpret...
It seems that libertarians expect this incredible fidelity when their (mine, too) heroes enter the policy domain. The fact that Mises was also grateful to fascist Italy for initially staving off the Anschluss was simply a value judgment that he liked not being enslaved or murdered by Nazis, not an endorsement of fascism. When attempting to apply principles to the political domain we are bound to fail, as will the physician advising the witch doctor. With politics it is always a question of who will be coerced, how much and in what fashion, not what principles foster social cooperation.
The Libertarians Were There and You Weren't
Steven Horwitz This piece has been getting a lot of play today in which Michael Lind accuses both Mises and Hayek of being friends of autocracy and fascism (you can guess why - the Liberalism quote ripped out of context and the supposed Hayek-Pinochet connection). He also misunderstands the lib...
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