==================== HES POSTING ====================== My understanding of the issues of formalism, and the relation of the work of Mises to at least one of those mentioned in my post -- Hayek, is at least partially and provisionally found in the recent HES conference paper "The Significance of Myth and Misunderstanding in Social Science Narrative: Opening Access to Friedrich Hayek's Copernican Revolution in Economics" which is available on the internet at my WEB site at: http://members.gnn.com/logosapien/ransom.htm I must warn that the arguments there are at a very high and abstract level, without the detail and historical background that are really required for a broad audience. Some have found the analysis there to be exceptional, others have found it rather heavy going. I find it terribly helpful to overhear references to papers and books of direct relevance to my own research efforts during ongoing conversations on the internet, so I regularly include bibliographical material in large measure for the chance benefit of those 'lurking in' on ongoing discussions. As further bibliography for the current conversation, I might add: Pierluigi Barrotta, "A Neo-Kantian Critique of von Mises's Epistemology", in _Economics & Philosophy_, 1996, vol. 12, pp. 51-66. Oskar Morgenstern, "Logistics and the Social Sciences", in Adrew Schotter, ed., _Selected Economic Writings of Oskar Morgenstern_, New York: New York U. Press, 1976. Keith Tribe, _Strategies of Economic Order: German Economic Discourse, 1975-1950_, Cambridge: Cambridge U. PRess. Thomas Willey, _Back to Kant: The Revival of Kantianism in German Social and Historical Thought, 1860-1914_, Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1976. Klaus Kohnke, _The Rise of Neo-Kantianism_, Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1991. Thomas Uebel, ed., _Rediscovering the Forgotten Vienna Circle_, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publ., 1991. Robert Clower, "Axiomatics in Economics", _Southern J. of Econ._ Greg Ransom Dept. of Philosophy UC-Riverside [log in to unmask] http://members.gnn.com/logosapien/ransom.htm ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]