Praxeology as an Antidote to Hyperreality
Government economic policies reflect abstract ideas of what agents wish reality were like. Praxeology is not beholden to abstract economic fantasies.
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Beware the Neo-Primes
The latest rage among defense contractors is the rise of the high-tech “neo-primes,” firms which supposedly will apply “smart” militarization. History a...
Theory Explains Data, Not the Other Way Around
The doctrine of positive economics tells us that data will provide an appropriate theory. As usual Austrian economists understand that mainstream economists
“Creating a Nation”: The Declaration of Independence and the Nation Anachronism
Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later
Research Fellowship in Residence 2027
Research Fellowships at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, are available to graduate students and post-docs interested in scientific research in the
The Public Goods Circular Argument
Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state