Rothbard on the Distinctions of Social Sciences

  • Why man chooses various ends: psychology.
  • What men’s ends should be: ethics, aesthetics.
  • How to use means to arrive at ends: technology.
  • What man’s ends are and have been, and how man has used means in order to attain them: history.
  • The formal implications of the fact that men use means to attain various chosen ends: praxeology. (Man, Economy, & State with Power and Market, 74)

Update. Conspicuously absent from this list is sociology.

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