title: Economic Science and the Austrian Method
author:  Hans-Hermann Hoppe 
description: A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approach head on. Hans-Hermann Hoppe rests his argument on the Kantian idea of the "synthetic apriori" proposition, thereby expanding an aim of Mises's in the methodology section of Human Action. Hoppe is the Austrian School's most prominent methodologist, and here he is in top form. He combines a rigorous scientific explanation with fantastic passion and rhetoric. <Br><Br> These lectures astonished students at the Mises University when they were first delivered. They were later turned into this monograph, which has been a staple of Austrian pedagogy ever since. The volume includes: <br><br> Preface, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.<br><br> I. Praxeology and Economic Science II. On Praxeology and the Praxeological Foundations of Epistemology <Br>
zlib_text: ECONOMIC SCIENCE
  AND THE
  AUSTRIAN METHOD
  
  ECONOMIC SCIENCE
  AND THE
  AUSTRIAN METHOD
  HANS..HERMANN HOPPE
  Lu~wig
  von Mises
  Institute
  AUBURN, ALABAMA
  
  All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the
  publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief
  quotations in critical reviews or articles.
  Copyright © 1995 and 2007 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute
  Ludwig von Mises Institute, 518 West Magnolia Avenue, Auburn,
  Ala. 36832; www.mises.org
  ISBN 10 digit:
  1~933550~11~2
  ISBN 13 digit: 978~ 1~933550~ 11~4
  
  CONTENTS
  PREFACE
  5
  PRAXEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC SCIENCE
  7
  ON PRAXEOLOGY AND THE PRAXEOLOGICAL
  FOUNDATION OF EPISTEMOLOGY
  49
  RECOMMENDED READINGS
  85
  INDEX
  87
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  89
  3
  
  PREFACE
  I
  t was a tragic day when economics, the queen of the
  social sciences, adopted the methods associated with
  the natural sciences: empiricism and positivism. In the
  sweep of economic thought, this change occurred-not
  coincidentally-about the same time that intellectuals and
  polit