Monthly Archives: November 2010

The paper on the “convergence” of Talcott Parsons, Ludwig von Mises and Karl Popper during the 1930s has got the thumbs down from two out of three referees with a local history of ideas in economics journal. Comments on the … Continue reading →

A nice demonstration of the profile of Popper and conjectural knowledge in the profession. In The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (ed Paul Moser), OUP 2002 there are two passing references to Popper but not as a serious participant in the field. … Continue reading →

Available from Amazon, a book on critical rationalism by Darrell Rowbottom. See his full list of publications! With  a pic.

The Vitual Conference, the complement or supplement to the recent Mont Pelerin Conference in Sydney is now updated from the draft version which was posted here last month. http://www.the-rathouse.com/2010/Virtual-Classical-Liberalism.html

Radnitzky reviews a  book by Gunnar Andersson which defends Popper’s position on falsification from the standard criticisms. http://www.the-rathouse.com/2010/Radnizky__Andersson_-_Falsificationism_is_Robust.pdf

Session 9 The Path to Development A Peter Bauer Memorial Lecture by William Easterly. No text in hand, refer to his previous publications such as this review and his Blog. How foreign aid was invented by accident, and misreading the Marshall … Continue reading →

Plenary session 7, New Developments in Economics. The Mont Pelerin Society Conference program had papers on happiness in society by Jason Potts, the economist as guru by Geoffrey Brennan and behavioural economics, law, liberty and the quest for the Third Way by … Continue reading →

C Wright Mills on Intellectual Craftsmanship.  Mills wrote an important critique of the prevailing fashions in sociology during the 1960s, notably “grand theory” which was represented by Talcott Parsons in his post-1937 “general systems theory”,  and “abstracted empiricism” which piled … Continue reading →

Thanks to the Questia on-line library, where text can be easily cut and pasted (unlike Google books) some sections of The Poverty can be found here. The sections are on the practical aims of the critique of historicism, the technological or … Continue reading →