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The Austrian school overall disavows empiricism as the means by which to infer economic laws and instead views economics as a field closer to philosophy. For mo
by yasp 8y ago
The Austrian school overall disavows empiricism as the means by which to infer economic laws and instead views economics as a field closer to philosophy. For more information on the method I recommend the pamphlet Economic Science and the Austrian Method. [0]
Re: my previous comment, that, in short, money and credit are like any other markets.
If you're interested in a gentle introduction to the Austrian school of thought I recommend the book Man, Economy, and State. Skip the final section of the book entitled Power and Market. [1]
[0] https://mises.org/library/economic-science-and-austrian-method https://mises.org/library/economic-science-and-austrian-meth...
[1] https://mises.org/library/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market https://mises.org/library/man-economy-and-state-power-and-ma...
- dragonwriter 8y ago> The Austrian school overall disavows empiricism as the means by which to infer economic laws and instead views economics as a field closer to philosophy Empiricism is a philosophical approach; Austrian economics isn't any closer to “philosophy” than empirical economics is, it just is closer to the particular (and widely rejected in most of modern Western philosophy though it survives in a form within some schools of Christian theology as well as Austrian economics) philosophical belief that claims about material facts can be justified a priori by deduction from axioms alone without reference to a posteriori knowledge.