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Aristotle, Menger, Mises: On the Metaphysics of Economics

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  • 1990
  • #Metaphysics #Economics
Barry Smith (ontologist)
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ontology.buffalo.edu
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There are, familiarly, a range of distinct and competing accounts of the methodological underpinnings of Menger's work. These include Leibnizian, Kantian, Millian, and even Popperia... Show More

There are, familiarly, a range of distinct and competing accounts of the methodological underpinnings of Menger's work. These include Leibnizian, Kantian, Millian, and even Popperian readings; but they include also readings of an Aristotelian sort, and I have myself made a number of contributions in clarification and defence of the latter.(1) Not only, I have argued, does the historical situation in which Menger found himself point to the inevitability of the Aristotelian reading; this reading fits also very naturally to the text of Menger's works.

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George Selgin @georgeselgin · Mar 17, 2022
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Too crude a dichotomy. Smith has a good discussion of the nature of Menger’s apriorism and its connection to his essentialism and “realism”:
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