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Next week the Mont Pelerin Society meets in Sydney (Australia). An all-star cast of speakers will address a range of topics under the general theme of The 21st Century Liberal Enlightenment. The speakers include some locals, among them Sinclair Davidson (academic … Continue reading →

Heads up on a new blog created by Troy Camplin, a frequent contributor to the site of the Austrian economists, now Coordination Problem. This close to my interests as you saw from the post on the wider agenda of classical … Continue reading →

This is a 1400 word summary and go here for a more extended account of the main arguments and evidence.  Summary of Terence Kealey, The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Macmillan, 1996. pb, 380 pages. The take-home message from this book is that … Continue reading →

Playing around with the idea of a Preface or maybe an addendum to attach to several essays in the Rathouse that were written years ago. The idea is to give a sense of the bigger picture of Popper’s ideas before … Continue reading →

Updating, this is the original Page of Rafe Champion. It is free of charge but it became colonised by advertising popups and that plus other limitations helped to prompt the change of site. More additional stuff below the original post. … Continue reading →

Responding to a comment from Lee Kelly, picking up some loose thoughts that I put out about Hayek and Popper. My initial response was to say that I got it wrong and more work is required. Although Hayek opposed the state … Continue reading →

Mario Rizzo made a passionate appeal to Austrians and friends of classical liberalism to rally at the barricades. He mentioned the need to stand with allies. “I venture the prediction that they will fare much better this time – especially if … Continue reading →

This is a draft for some thoughts to put on the Austrians email list. The uneasy relationship between Popper and von Mises has persisted with many of  their followers. Most Popperians are social democrats and many Misesians detest Popper’s epistemology … Continue reading →

At the Vienna Conference in 2002 I talked about Austrian economics as a Popperian Metaphysical Research Program. The paper that emerged from the notes for that talk was not accepted in the published proceedings due to an adverse referee’s report … Continue reading →

Sorry, this post was superfluous, the well advanced draft of the paper was posted the other day (attention deficit) so the previous post is deleted.   This paper is just about ready to go off to the journal of the … Continue reading →