First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
LUDWIG VON MISES ON THE SCEINCE OF HUMAN ACTION
Ludwig von Mises, Epistemological Problems of Economics, translated from the German by George Reisman, edited and with a foreword by Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2013) (From the "Preface": "This book's main contribution is in explaining that economics is 'the science of human action that strives for universally valid knowledge.' The science of human action is economic theory; it is not a history of economic phenomena." Id. at xiii.).