@Mulloch94 said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:
That tweet doesn't even accurately described Misesian economic models. There are no assumption based models in Austrian economics. So that person is referring to post-keynesian schools of thought...or it may simply be they're too ignorant to have thoughtful discourse in the matter. Either way, acting individuals make society possible. Without them, society ceases to exist.
She is a professor of Cognitive Science and Applied Complexity Science.
These two disciplines invalidate the Austrian School in many parts...
Mises stated that praxeology could be used to deduce a priori theoretical economic truths and that deductive economic thought experiments could yield conclusions that follow irrefutably from the underlying assumptions. He wrote that conclusions could not be inferred from empirical observation or statistical analysis and argued against the use of probabilities in economic models.
In complex (mal)adaptive systems in which we are living "truths" cannot be simply "deduced". Thinking that someone can do this is a presumptuous narcissism or a lack of (ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological) knowledge...
Moreover, a complex system needs constraints and attractors to work properly. Therefore, a free (nonconstrained) market means chaos...
"Methodological individualism" is also a BS. People are social creatures prone to group dynamics and systemic influences.
Moreover,
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.
Wrong, because:
Humans have two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive, and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.
And so on and on... quod erat demonstrandum.
