Economics is often used in literary studies, but rarely free market economics. Austrian economics, with its emphasis on subjective value (Menger), human action (Mises), spontaneous order and knowledge (Hayek), and entrepreneurship (Kirzner), seems a particularly fruitful source of ideas for literary studies.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Praxeology and Beauty
Poet/philosopher Frederick Turner defines beauty as "the highest integrative level of understanding and the most comprehensive capacity for effective action." Praxeology as the study of beauty? Only those actions which are beautiful are those which conform to those recommended by praxeology? Other possibilities?
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