and impressive applicability of mathematics in the natural sciences. Quineans hold that mathematics is conIlrDled by these applications, that only that part of mathematics with application is justified. Defenders of pure mathematics naturally disagree, finding justification for unapplied mathematics in various places, perhaps in some largely unspecified aesthetic virtues or in some philosophy o...

About the book: Unlike psychologistic paradigms, the non-atomistic variant of methodological individualism discussed in this book explains society in terms of complex emergent structures that unintentionally result from human actions, and that in turn influence those actions. Friedrich Hayek is an emblematic representative of this approach, the origins of which date back to the Scottish Enlight...

This paper is about the alleged tension between methodological individualism and evolutionary ideas in the work of Friedrich Hayek. This issue is much debated, but I focus my attention on a quite original incompatibility argument by Geoffrey Hodgson. Hodgson sympathizes with the evolutionary Hayek, arguing that Hayek’s methodological individualism involves an “ontogenetic” approach to social sc...

Part of the difficulty of introducing social economics into the principles course is the perception that social economics is anathema to mainstream economics. 1 As noted by Warren Samuels, however, "neoclassical economics is already a form of social economics" despite its "pretensions of methodological individualism and value-neutrality" [Samuels, p. 2]. Heilbroner also makes the case that the ...

Life is short and time for reading books on business ethics is scarce. Those readers who are interested in the argumentative foundations of business ethics, but do not want to struggle through several hundred pages, can find a compact presentation in Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics, written by Hardy Bouillon. The book is composed of four chapters: 1. Ethical Preliminarie...

abstract health economic evaluation research plays an important role in selecting cost-effective interventions. the purpose of this study was to assess the quality of published articles in iranian journals related to economic evaluation in health care programs based on drummond’s checklist in terms of numbers, features, and quality. in the present review study, published articles (persian and e...

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 At the end of 2005, Professor V.G. Gorshkov, author scientific concept biotic regulation environment [Gorshkov, 1995], together with A.N. Makarieva, put forward theory pump atmospheric moisture 2006; In memory Viktor Georgievich 2020], according to which virgin forests and swamps provide transport moist air from ocean land. With this conclusion, authors are trying draw...

This article tests the assumption that cohabitation makes a difference in the allocation of childcare responsibilities within couples. It has often been assumed that cohabiting individuals are less likely to adhere to traditional gender ideologies than married people, because they tend to have a lower tolerance for poorly functioning relationships, to assign more value to individual freedom, an...