Thought-provoking meditation on knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place; 'indexical' (as opposed to global) knowledge.https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1222019385834950656 …
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Tangentially, one thing that makes the Austrian tradition so compelling is that it's able both to stand against the neoclassicals to say "No! Contextual knowledge matters!" AND to stand against the institutionalists to say "No! Generalizable knowledge DOES exist!"
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I'd venture to say that simply being able to reconcile these two stands, falling to neither side, gets you 90% of the way to a good social-scientific method.
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probably a stereotype but I think of Austrian school as figuring out how seriously to take words before they try to figure out how seriously to take data
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(which is good)
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