The Critical Mises
by Marcus Verhaegh (Ludwig von Mises Institute)
Ludwig von Mises’ account of a priori economics laws seems to suffer from a confusion. On the one hand, Mises wishes to hark back to the Kantian model of procuring valid a priori judgments through transcendental techniques. On the other hand, Mises at times claims that aprioristic reasoning is always analytic. Something must give: a transcendental approach to the a priori must make room for the synthetic a priori. Indeed, in light of the character of the a priori, praxeological laws that Mises proposes, it is necessary not merely to make room for synthetic a priori judgment. On a transcendental approach, one must in fact assign most praxeological laws to this species of judgment. We thus have at least two reconstructive options. [Full paper]
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