(Austrian) Economics

Democracy, Spontaneous Order, and the Democratic Peace Thesis

December 7, 2005 @ 3:12 pm

Gus diZerega over at Liberty & Power has made a couple of posts arguing not only in favor on the democratic peace thesis (about which I have posted before; see here) but also, and far more incredibly, that democracies are spontaneous orders. See his posts here and here. I commented on the latter, offering a [...]

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Objectivism and Austrian Economics

July 18, 2005 @ 11:01 pm

Today I left a comment over at SOLOHQ on Heidi Morris’s article “Reason and Reality: The Logical Compatibility of Austrian Economics and Objectivism,” disagreeing with what I take to be mistaken views of Austrian economics by a couple of the other commentors. The article is interesting, and admirable in its attempt to bridge the divide [...]

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More empirical evidence against the democratic peace thesis

June 15, 2005 @ 9:33 pm

Last semester I took a political science seminar on international conflict. I wanted to learn more about international conflict. I blogged about it here, here, and here. Unfortunately, the class was oriented primarily around mainstream (i.e., empirical and quantitative) political science, so I didn’t learn as much as I would have liked. Everything I learned [...]

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Science, Statistics, and Ideology

February 12, 2005 @ 1:16 pm

It’s funny… I was told by a professor in my department a while back that my beliefs on economics and political economy amounted to nothing more than ideology. Indeed, my “ideology” (libertarianism) made him, in his own words, uneasy. Well, it was his fault for asking ideologically-laden questions in class in the first place. One [...]

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Update

February 2, 2005 @ 12:00 am

Well… It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been rather busy what with the three graduate-level classes that I am taking, another class that I am teaching, and the fact that my clunker of a car went belly up so I’m looking for a new, cheap replacement. In any case, my three classes [...]

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Rating economic liberalism

January 7, 2005 @ 10:53 am

The Economist writes: “The Heritage Foundation‘s annual index of economic freedom produced a surprise: America fell out of the top ten for the first time since the measure was created in 1995. The index gave the top honour to Hong Kong, followed by Singapore. Haiti suffered the steepest drop in its rating since last year, [...]

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Barry Smith, Austrian economics, and the irrefutability of the action axiom

December 20, 2004 @ 3:54 pm

Philosopher Barry Smith has argued in several places (see “The Question of Apriorism,” for an example), contra the Austrian economists, that the action axiom is not irrefutable. He points out that an alien could deny that human beings act. I think that he is correct here if the action axiom is defined as the fact [...]

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Value-neutrality in science; and Rand's agent-relative theory of value and the Austrian theory of subjective value

December 20, 2004 @ 12:37 pm

I comment briefly over at the Mises Economics blog on the correlation between Rand’s theory of the agent-relative nature of values and the Austrian theory of subjective value, and on value-neutrality in economic science. Also, I wholeheartedly agree with Sheldon Richman’s comment immediately following mine.

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