(Austrian) Economics

Arthur C. Clarke must never have read Mises and Rothbard…

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 15, 2008 @ 9:20 pm (Austrian) Economics

…because according to this quote cited by Gregory Benford in his happy-birthday letter in Locus Magazine (January 2008), he claims that “there are some general laws governing scientific extrapolation, as there are not (pace Marx) in the case of politics and economics.” Well, far be it from me to disagree that Marx was wrong about [...]

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Ron Paul Discusses Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 19, 2007 @ 7:18 pm (Austrian) Economics
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Austrian Scholars Conference 2006

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché March 21, 2006 @ 2:11 pm (Austrian) Economics

I haven’t been posting much (all right, not at all) lately as I’ve been studying for my comprehensive exams. I recently attended the ASC at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. I presented a paper entitled “On Praxeology and the Question of Aristotelian Apriorism.” A revised version of this paper can be found on my [...]

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Democracy, Spontaneous Order, and the Democratic Peace Thesis

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 7, 2005 @ 3:12 pm (Austrian) Economics

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

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 18, 2005 @ 11:01 pm (Austrian) Economics

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

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 15, 2005 @ 9:33 pm (Austrian) Economics

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

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 12, 2005 @ 1:16 pm (Austrian) Economics

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

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 2, 2005 @ 12:00 am (Austrian) Economics

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

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 7, 2005 @ 10:53 am (Austrian) Economics

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

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 20, 2004 @ 3:54 pm (Austrian) Economics

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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