Praxeology (economics)
The Praxeology is for the economists Ludwig von Mises the doctrine of human action (see Human Action ). As a scientific discipline, it stands independently alongside ethics , science and history . The subjectivist economics enhanced with the theory of acts of choice that of the classical economics machined research. With the problem of economic efficiency, the economy has its autonomous field of investigation. All action is already rational by the concept, because it cannot be grasped otherwise by the theory.
criticism
Hans Albert criticizes the amalgamation of normative ( regulatory ) problems and the problem of explaining economic behavior and institutions (such as trying to solve them through a market sociology ) as a political ideology . You will logically surreptitiously with a confusion of terms regarding " rationality ". In particular, it is not logically possible to switch off the ethical evaluation of means by neutralizing the goals; for this would amount to the rule that the end justifies every means.
literature
- Ludwig von Mises: Human Action : A Treatise on Economics . Ed .: Bettina Bien Greaves. 4th edition. Liberty Fund Inc., Auburn (Alabama) 2007, ISBN 978-0-86597-631-3 ( mises.org [PDF; 11 kB ]).
- Murray N. Rothbard : Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics , in: The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School , Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 1997, pp. 58-77 ( online (PDF; 71 kB) mises.org).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig von Mises: Economics. Theory of Action and Business . Munich 1980, ISBN 3-88405-010-9 (first Geneva 1940; online (PDF; 50.2 MB) at mises.org), p. 2 ff.
- ^ Hans Albert: Economic Ideology and Political Theory. The economic argument in the regulatory debate . Verlag Otto Schwartz & Co., Göttingen 1954 (Monographs on Politics, Issue 4, 2nd edition 1972).
- ↑ Albert refers here u. a. on Gunnar Myrdal : The Political Element in Economic Doctrine Formation. Berlin 1932.