***READ ME FIRST*** A RECONSTRUCTION OF PRAXEOLOGY AS ECONOMIC INTUITIONISM FULL

***READ ME FIRST***

A RECONSTRUCTION OF PRAXEOLOGY AS ECONOMIC INTUITIONISM FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH RATIO-EMPIRICAL SCIENCE

I. PURPOSE:

1) To restore credibility to Austrian Economics by transforming it from Rationalist and pseudoscientific, to consistent with all scientific and logical disciplines.

2) To quash rationalist and pseudoscientific fallacies that have discredited Austrian economics, discredited the quest for moral economics, distracted from the quest for moral institutions through moral constraint on political economy, and cast the quest for liberty itself as the province of ‘the lunatic fringe’.

3) To provide a language for dividing economics into moral (Austrian operational economics) and immoral (Keyensian redistributive economics) disciplines.

4) To provide a scientific and critical rather than ideological and justificationary discussion of Austrian Economics (at least the German wing) as a method for testing the truthfulness and morality of economic theories – and to advocate restoring morality and truthfulness to economic science.

What follows is a series of posts I have written in the past few months as I have worked on Propertarianism. It may require that you have a non-trivial understanding of philosophy. And your average passionate advocate of political ideas does not have that understanding. But hopefully you will glean some ideas from it, and provide me with some useful criticism.

Thanks

II. SUMMARY:

The first post summarizes the argument. The remaining articles expand the Introduction take you from basic philosophical concepts, through a series of short essays

1) REFORMING AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IS NECESSARY (To return the dialog to truthful and moral Austrian economics, and deceptive and immoral macro economics)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/762176483871723/

2) WHY ARE YOU REFUTING MISES, ROTHBARD AND HOPPE? (To Save Austrian Economics from the lunatic fringe)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/762184140537624/

3) PRAXEOLOGY AS MISES FAILURE TO DEVELOP ECONOMIC OPERATIONALISM (Restoring Austrian Economics To Compatibility with Ratio-empirical science)

http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

III. BACKGROUND:

0) BASIC TERMS (And yes, you probably need to read these rather than assume you know what they mean.)

– Rationalism vs Empiricism

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/

– Intuitionism in Mathematics

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/

– Operationalism in Physics

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/operationalism/

– Operationism in Psychology

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/199/1/operat.htm

– Instrumentalism (Eccentric Usage)

I am a scientific realist, however, I use the term “instrumentalism” (probably a bad choice of words) in a much narrower sense: to refer to our use of logical and physical instruments to reduce phenomenon to that which we can somehow experience and compare, contrast, qualify, quantify or decide.

1) THE STRUGGLE TO PRODUCE A MORAL ECONOMIC SCIENCE

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/750991571656881/

2) SCIENCE IS THE DISCIPLINE OF SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/750418458380859/

3) MORAL CONSTRAINT FROM LAW THROUGH MATHEMATICS

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/751096391646399/

4) CRITICISM: EMPIRICISM, INSTRUMENTALISM, OPERATIONALISM, FALSIFICATIONISM VS JUTIFICATION: RATIONALISM

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/751258491630189/

5) JUSTIFICATION AS ADHERENCE TO CONTRACT, CRITICISM AS ADHERENCE TO DUE DILIGENCE

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/763919313697440/

6) MISES POSITION IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/10/17/mises-position-in-intellectual-history/

7) SCIENCE AS TRUTHFUL SPEECH – GERMAN RATIONALISM AND JEWISH COSMOPOLITANISM AS IMMORAL INFORMATION DISTORTION EQUAL TO THE INFORMATION DISTORTION OF KEYNSIAN ECONOMICS.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/752211031534935/

8) WHICH IS MORE LIKELY: A PURPOSEFUL DECEPTION OR ANTI-SCIENTIFIC RATIONALISM?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/751253388297366/

9) THE REFORMATION OF WESTERN THOUGHT

https://www.facebook.com/groups/scientific.praxeology/permalink/752802284809143/

10) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

– “Praxeology and Its Critics” by Bruce Caldwell.

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~bjc18/docs/Praxeology%20and%20Its%20Critics.pdf

– Do We Reason When We Think We Reason, or Do We Think?

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/associates/miller/lfd-.pdf

– The Objectives of Science

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/associates/miller/poincare.pdf

– Truth Defined

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/associates/miller/TruthDefined.pdf