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	* [https://freecapitalists.org/books/the-ultimate-foundation-of-economic-science/ Full text at the Liberty Archive]		* [https://freecapitalists.org/books/the-ultimate-foundation-of-economic-science/ Full text at the Liberty Archive]
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	** [http://mises.org/books/ufofes/foreword.aspx Foreword to 2nd edition] by [[Israel Kirzner\|Israel M. Kirzner]]		** [http://mises.org/books/ufofes/foreword.aspx Foreword to 2nd edition] by [[Israel Kirzner\|Israel M. Kirzner]]
	** [~~http~~://~~mises~~.org/books/ultimate~~.pdf~~ Alternate PDF link]		** [https://freecapitalists.org/books/ultimate-foundation-of-economic-science-the/ Alternate PDF link]

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	** {{md\|5740\|How Mises Rebuilt Economics\|[[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]]\|~~1995~~}}		** {{md\|5740\|How Mises Rebuilt Economics\|[[Hans-Hermann Hoppe]]\|<small>from ''[[Economic Science and the Austrian Method]]''</small>}}
	** {{md\|2125\|Praxeological Economics and Mathematical Economics\|[[Gene Callahan]]\|April 2006}}		** {{md\|2125\|Praxeological Economics and Mathematical Economics\|[[Gene Callahan]]\|April 2006}}

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	** [http://mises.org/books/ultimate.pdf Alternate PDF link]		** [http://mises.org/books/ultimate.pdf Alternate PDF link]

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 '''''The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science''''' is a treatise written by [[Ludwig von Mises]] which was first published in 1962 and ended up being his final book. ''The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science'' concentrates on the [[Epistemology|epistemological]] basis of economics. Or more generally the contribution that economics, or the science of human action, could make to our understanding of the universe, or as Mises said:
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	{{Quote\|This essay proposes to stress the fact that there is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and to describe. There is human action.\|Ludwig von Mises\|''[[The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science]]''}}		{{Quote\|This essay proposes to stress the fact that there is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and to describe. There is human action.\|Ludwig von Mises\|''[[The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science]]''}}

	Mises uses both [[methodological dualism]] and [[methodological individualism]] to elucidate the differences between economics and the natural sciences, he pays special attention to addressing the criticisms that [[logical positivism\|logical positivists]] had put forth against economics. Furthermore Mises spends time explaining the [[a priori]] nature of [[praxeology]], discussing how praxeology is based on [[deduction\|deductive reasoning]] from the a priori category of action.<ref>[[Ludwig von Mises]]. [http://mises.org/books/ufofes/ "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science"], 1962.</ref> ''The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science'' is also the source of the memorable Mises quote:		Mises uses both [[methodological dualism]] and [[methodological individualism]] to elucidate the differences between economics and the natural sciences, he pays special attention to addressing the criticisms that [[logical positivism\|logical positivists]] had put forth against economics. Furthermore Mises spends time explaining the [[a priori proposition\|a priori]] nature of [[praxeology]], discussing how praxeology is based on [[deduction\|deductive reasoning]] from the a priori category of action.<ref>[[Ludwig von Mises]]. [http://mises.org/books/ufofes/ "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science"], 1962.</ref> ''The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science'' is also the source of the memorable Mises quote:
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'''''The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science''''' is a treatise written by [[Ludwig von Mises]] which was first published in 1962 and ended up being his final book. ''The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science'' concentrates on the [[Epistemology|epistemological]] basis of economics. Or more generally the contribution that economics, or the science of human action, could make to our understanding of the universe, or as Mises said:

{{Quote|This essay proposes to stress the fact that there is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and to describe. There is human action.|Ludwig von Mises|''[[The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science]]''}}

Mises uses both [[methodological dualism]] and [[methodological individualism]] to elucidate the differences between economics and the natural sciences, he pays special attention to addressing the criticisms that [[logical positivism|logical positivists]] had put forth against economics. Furthermore Mises spends time explaining the [[a priori]] nature of [[praxeology]], discussing how praxeology is based on [[deduction|deductive reasoning]] from the a priori category of action.<ref>[[Ludwig von Mises]]. [http://mises.org/books/ufofes/ "The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science"], 1962.</ref> ''The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science'' is also the source of the memorable Mises quote:
{{Quote|Yet the criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.|Ludwig von Mises|''[[The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science]]''}}

==References==
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==Links==
{{Store|http://mises.org/store/Ultimate-Foundation-of-Economic-Science-P139.aspx}}
* [http://mises.org/books/ufofes/ Online full text version]
* [http://mises.org/books/ultimate.pdf Full PDF version]

[[Category:Writings of Ludwig von Mises]]
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