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Praxeology, the Glossary

In philosophy, praxeology or praxiology is the theory of human action, based on the notion that humans engage in purposeful behavior, contrary to reflexive behavior and other unintentional behavior.^[1]

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Action (philosophy)

In philosophy, an action is an event that an agent performs for a purpose, that is, guided by the person's intention.

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Action axiom

An action axiom is an axiom that embodies a criterion for describing action.

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Action theory (philosophy)

Action theory or theory of action is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex kind.

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Action theory (sociology)

In sociology, action theory is the theory of social action presented by the American theorist Talcott Parsons.

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Alfred Espinas

Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 – 24 February 1922) was a French thinker noted for having been an influence on Nietzsche.

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American Economic Review

The American Economic Review is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal first published by the American Economic Association in 1911.

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Anatol Rapoport

Anatol Borisovich Rapoport (Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт; Анато́лий Бори́сович Рапопо́рт; May 22, 1911January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist.

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Antony Davies

Antony Davies (born 4 April 1965) is an American economist, speaker, and author.

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Austrian school of economics

The Austrian school is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result primarily from the motivations and actions of individuals along with their self interest. Praxeology and Austrian school of economics are Austrian School.

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Axiology

Axiology (from Greek ἀξία, axia: "value, worth"; and -λογία, -logia: "study of") is the philosophical study of value. Praxeology and Axiology are social philosophy.

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Barter

In trade, barter (derived from baretor) is a system of exchange in which participants in a transaction directly exchange goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money.

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Behavioral economics

Behavioral economics is the study of the psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors involved in the decisions of individuals or institutions, and how these decisions deviate from those implied by classical economic theory.

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Behavioral ethics

Behavioral ethics is a field of social scientific research that seeks to understand how individuals behave when confronted with ethical dilemmas.

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Behaviorism

Behaviorism (also spelled behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals.

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Carl Menger

Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün (28 February 1840 – 26 February 1921) was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics.

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Catallactics

Catallactics is a theory of the way the free market system reaches exchange ratios and prices. Praxeology and Catallactics are Austrian School.

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Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.

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Charles Mercier

Charles Arthur Mercier (21 June 1851 – 2 September 1919) was a British psychiatrist and leading expert on forensic psychiatry and insanity.

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Clemens Timpler

Clemens Timpler (1563 – 28 February 1624) was a German philosopher, physicist and theologian.

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Decision theory

Decision theory (or the theory of choice) is a branch of applied probability theory and analytic philosophy concerned with the theory of making decisions based on assigning probabilities to various factors and assigning numerical consequences to the outcome.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Efficiency

Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task.

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Empiricism

In philosophy, empiricism is an epistemological view which holds that true knowledge or justification comes only or primarily from sensory experience and empirical evidence.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.

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Eugen Slutsky

Evgeny "Eugen" Evgenievich Slutsky (Евге́ний Евге́ньевич Слу́цкий; – 10 March 1948) was a Russian and Soviet mathematical statistician, economist and political economist.

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François Perroux

François Perroux (December 19, 1903 – June 2, 1987) was a French economist.

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Free market

In economics, a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers.

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Game theory

Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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John B. Watson

John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who popularized the scientific theory of behaviorism, establishing it as a psychological school.

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John von Neumann

John von Neumann (Neumann János Lajos; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.

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Knight Dunlap

Knight Dunlap (November 21, 1875 – August 14, 1949) was an American psychologist.

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Leo Apostel

Leo Apostel (Antwerp, 4 September 1925 – Ghent, 10 August 1995) was a Belgian philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University.

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Logical positivism

Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is the verification principle (also known as the verifiability criterion of meaning).

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Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian–American Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist. Praxeology and Ludwig von Mises are social philosophy.

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Mario Bunge

Mario Augusto Bunge (September 21, 1919 – February 24, 2020) was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist.

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Max Weber

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.

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Methodological individualism

In the social sciences, methodological individualism is a framework that describes social phenomena as a consequence of subjective personal motivations by individual actors.

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Money

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context.

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Murray Rothbard

Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School,Ronald Hamowy, ed., 2008,, Cato Institute, Sage,, p. 62: "a leading economist of the Austrian school"; pp.

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Natural philosophy

Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe.

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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (p; – 15 March 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist.

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Oskar Morgenstern

Oskar Morgenstern (January 24, 1902 – July 26, 1977) was a German-born economist.

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Oskar R. Lange

Oskar Ryszard Lange (27 July 1904 – 2 October 1965) was a Polish economist and diplomat.

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Pergamon Press

Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, that published scientific and medical books and journals.

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Philosophical methodology

In its most common sense, philosophical methodology is the field of inquiry studying the methods used to do philosophy.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. Praxeology and Philosophy are academic disciplines.

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Philosophy (journal)

Philosophy is the scholarly journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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Philosophy and economics

Philosophy and economics studies topics such as public economics, behavioural economics, rationality, justice, history of economic thought, rational choice, the appraisal of economic outcomes, institutions and processes, the status of highly idealized economic models, the ontology of economic phenomena and the possibilities of acquiring knowledge of them.

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Philosophy in this sense means how social science integrates with other related scientific disciplines, which implies a rigorous, systematic endeavor to build and organize knowledge relevant to the interaction between individual people and their wider social involvement. Praxeology and Philosophy of social science are social sciences.

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Pierre Massé

Pierre Benjamin Daniel Massé (13 January 1898 – 15 December 1987) was a French economist, engineer, applied mathematician, and high official in the French government.

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Positivism

Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning ''a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.

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Practice theory

Practice theory (or praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture as the result of structure and individual agency.

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Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.

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Rationalism

In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification",Lacey, A.R. (1996), A Dictionary of Philosophy, 1st edition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.

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Raymond Aron

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.

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Reflex

In biology, a reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary, unplanned sequence or action and nearly instantaneous response to a stimulus.

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Robert Flint

Robert Flint LLD DD (14 March 1838 – 1910) was a Scottish theologian and philosopher who wrote also on sociology.

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Robinson Crusoe economy

A Robinson Crusoe economy is a simple framework used to study some fundamental issues in economics.

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Sage Publishing

Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.

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Second International

The Second International, also called the Socialist International, was an organisation of socialist and labour parties, formed on 14 July 1889 at two simultaneous Paris meetings in which delegations from twenty countries participated.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology

Also known as Praxeological, Praxeologically, Praxiology.

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