Reply to Caplan on Austrian Economic Methodology

Frege on Identity and Identity-Statements: A Reply to Caplan and Thau∗

In ‘What’s Puzzling Gottlob Frege?’ Michael Thau and Ben Caplan argue that, contrary to the common wisdom, Frege never abandoned his early view that, as he puts it in Begriffsschrift, a statement of identity “expresses the circumstance that two names have the same content” (Bg, §8) and thus asserts the existence of a relation between names rather than a relation between (ordinary) objects. The ...

On Austrian Value Theory and Economic Calculation

Reply to Lagueux: on a revolution in methodology of economics

I thank Maurice Lagueux for his thoughtful reflections on my book Economic theory and cognitive science: microexplanation (henceforth: ETCS:M). Given space restrictions, in this comment I won’t say much about his criticisms of my use of the intentional stance, except to observe that they seem to rely on equivocation between thinking of beliefs and desires as internal states of people, and as de...

Economic Development: An Individualistic Methodology

This paper establishes two theoretical frameworks in the study of economic development. These are constitutional analysis and interdisciplinary perspective. This study acknowledges that the economists are the ones to blame for lost of the underdevelopment in many parts of the world. These two theoretical frameworks are part of an individualistic methodology. The paper first, discusses individua...

Two Competing Paradigms in Austrian Economic Theory

This paper discusses some aspects of the notion of scientific progress based on the reconstruction of two exemplary economic research programmes. These programmes are the Austrian School of Economics and OTHMAR SPANN’S Intuitive Universalism—two programmes that fought for intellectual leadership during the inter-war period in Austria. The philosophical framework used for the discussion is the I...