Steve Patterson Challenges Rothbardians: Economic Theory is More Empirical Than You Think

The Bob Murphy Show
The Bob Murphy Show
Episode • Jul 10, 2019

Steve Patterson—host of “Patterson in Pursuit”—talks to Bob about one of his recent essays, in which Patterson challenges the standard Misesian/Rothbardian view of economics. Specifically, Patterson claims that you can’t get very far with pure a priori reasoning—even pretty basic economic laws rely on empirical assumptions.

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