Applied Praxeology

It is the age of overspecialization. Many economists, accustomed to statistical and mathematical speculations, have progressively lost the focus on the basic tenets of politics and ethics; in the same sense, it is common to encounter political philosophers and political scientists who are not acquainted with the reasoning of the economic type. The aim of Applied Praxeology is to make a valuable contribution to reconcile philosophy and economics. Mises' praxeology, the science claiming how economics is nothing but the "attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one," represents a perfect epistemological terrain on which to celebrate the definitive union between philosophy and economics. How to define the epistemological nature of Applied Praxeology? The present book is neither an economic text nor a speculation of political philosophy. Applied Praxeology is nothing but tertium quid, a text in which economics and political philosophy give birth to an original and independent branch of knowledge. The reader will be in a position to discover how the reasoning of the economic type can endow us with the key with which to disclose the truth.