10 junho 2013

a praxeologia está a ganhar

Aos poucos a fantasia de querer aplicar o método empírico-científico às ciências sociais/economia com a mesma validade que às ciências naturais está a desaparecer.

"In a speech discussing the future of liberal education, delivered on the occasion of his retirement as Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale, Donald Kagan struck a Rothbardian note:
But hasn’t the scientific method made its way into other disciplines, and can’t its benefits be obtained through them? Where the attempt has been made most seriously, in the social sciences, it has been a failure.(...)" via Time to Ditch the Scientific Method, Jeffrey Herbener

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