Friday, October 5, 2018

The "Psychological School" of Modern Subjectivist Economics

The expression “Psychological School” is frequently employed as a designation of modern subjectivist economics. Occasionally too the difference in method that exists between the School of Lausanne and the Austrian School is indicated by attributing to the latter the “psychological” method. It is not surprising that the idea of economics as almost a branch of psychology or applied psychology should have arisen from such a habit of speech.

--Ludwig von Mises, Epistemological Problems of Economics, trans. George Reisman, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2013), 139.


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