Two Competing Paradigms in Austrian Economic Theory
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This paper discusses some aspects of the notion of scientific progress based on the reconstruction of two exemplary economic research programmes. These programmes are the Austrian School of Economics and OTHMAR SPANN’S Intuitive Universalism—two programmes that fought for intellectual leadership during the inter-war period in Austria. The philosophical framework used for the discussion is the Incommensurability Thesis of THOMAS S. KUHN set against the background of KARL R. POPPER’S Critical Rationalism. This is one of the few attempts to use KUHN’S views for the reconstruction of the core hypotheses of competing theories in order to discuss progress.
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