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How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs | Part 7: The Search For A Valid Methodology Of Human Action
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The term praxeology is used to convey the general scientific study of human behaviour as differentiated from the study of the clockwork deterministic physical scientific world of natural stuff void of consciousness.
How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs | Part 3: The Economic Way Of Thinking
Mises held that the virtue of economics was its particular capability in providing insight into the link between human values, human action and desired outcomes. He advocated for a distinct economic way of thinking as a valid and necessary extension of logic, and therefore easily available to everybody.
How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs | Part 2: Progress Is Not A Foregone Conclusion
An irony of launching ourselves into actions to remove obstacles to our well-being is that often the decisions and actions we take actually lead us in the opposite direction.
How Economic Thinking Can Benefit Consumers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs | Part 1: Human Vectors and Consequential Ripples
We live in a culture that would be better served by a more comprehensive understanding of the interrelationship between good ideas and good living.
The Logic of Human Action as a Foundation for Entrepreneurial Discovery
In a recent episode of The Human Action Podcast by the…
Why Business and Ethics Are Always Connected
In this post I discuss the inherent connection between business purpose and ethical behaviour as two components of the larger category of human action.
Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 20: Conclusion: Reaffirming the Intellectual Foundations of Western Civilization
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When the…
Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 17: Mindless Survival is an Invitation to Chaos
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An outright…
Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 13: Volitional and Mechanistic Causation: Science or Sciences?
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The question…
Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 12: A Science of Two Parts Forms a Whole
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Ludwig von…
Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 11: The Important Implications of Praxeology
It was not so long ago that scientific dualism – the idea that the social sciences and the natural sciences require distinct methodologies – was uncontroversial. It was accepted that science was the systematic search for knowledge wherever appropriate to advance human understanding of the world and man’s place in it.
Science, Human Action, The Search for “Truth”, and Consequences | Part 10: The Unique Qualities of the Human Mind
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In his life-long…