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Ep. 2019 Pandemic Socialism

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The Misapplication of the Natural Sciences to Human Action

This book is part of h's broader critique of socialism and central planning. Part of it goes back to his critique of what he calls scientism, and that's the misapplication of the process of the natural sciences applied to human action. It really comes from this sort of pretence that the hard sciences were somehow settled,. And if we just gave over the science of human action to those guis of physicists, the biologists, the engineers, you could somehow recreate society from the top down.

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