Josh Kaufman

Comment posted by Alex at Mises.org:
“Most Austrians have come from more mainstream economic backgrounds. They have found that empirical research into economics is faulty, as it needs to be interpreted by theory. Numbers don’t tell you anything – and numbers themselves are not physical objects! They themselves are merely ‘ideas’, or, put another way, ideas [...]

This was one of the papers I enjoyed writing most in my short time studying philosophy at the University of Cincinnati: Aristotle on Mathematics and Abstraction, written under the direction of Dr. Lawrence Jost.
Although I’m not a great mathematician, mathematics is a fascinating topic to study, and “El Maestro” had a lot to say about [...]