A praxeology is outlined for stakeholder responsibility and response-ability in natural resource management. It is argued that capacity building in systems practice, involving systemic inquiry and the design of learning systems, is central to this praxeology. The research reported is a response to a perceived need by natural resource managers and researchers to think about their thinking and to...

If we want to evaluate a procedure for accomplishing a goal, we must start by identifying the goal we aim to achieve. I take it that the goal of economics, as a first approximation, is to evaluate arguments for and against the use of government coercive power to intervene in the market economy. In other words, it is to help determine the effects of using government power for all recommended act...

When Professor Perlman asked me to write this paper, he charged me with discussing the connection between the Knowledge Project, the monumental ten-volume effort Fritz Machlup left unfinished at his death, and the doctrine of praxeology taught by Ludwig von Mises, Machlup's teacher in Vienna. The idea of an intellectual journey instantly sprang to mind: this would be an essay about Machlup's tr...

THEORIZING ABOUT LAW and legal concepts falls under the field of jurisprudence, as do certain aspects of the assessment of legal institutions, procedures, and processes. Theorists in this field are typically described as working within various schools of thought, principally: natural law, legal positivism, legal realism, and critical legal studies. An alternative to these schools has been emerg...

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify epistemological possibilities of application of Praxeology as a method for studies that aim to bring solutions to urban mobility. Currently, urban mobility is under the centralized planning that wants to provide the public transport that offers the best value for money for the citizens in the provision of urban transport equipment. In this urban...

Multi-agent artificial decision systems require a praxeology, or science of efficient action, that accommodates complex interactions between decision makers. Conventional praxeologies are built on the paradigm of rational choice, which comprises the two companion premises of totally-ordered preferences and individual rationality. Exclusive self-interest when negotiating, however, engenders a pe...

Despite much research on teaching, (preservice) teachers in the field still experience a considerable gap between theory and the prescriptions for teaching and their own day-today practice. We conceptualize this gap in terms of the difference between descriptions of practice and practice itself. Descriptions are problematic because they (a) can not include the tacit understanding (background, p...

We attempt in this paper to tie together several basic insights of praxeology, and several that are not at all that basic. These include the following: that gains from exchange are subjective; that this applies to profits and interest; that credit transactions can occur under barter; that interest arises from time preference even under a pure time preference theory of interest; and that product...