Praxeology claims to be a method, but it’s actually a method of claims. It is an affect, an aesthetic, a way of making assertions. Famously, beneath its rhetoric, it amounts to a wholesale rejection of empiricism, made all the more impudent because the praxeologists make a habit of lambasting others (rightly or wrongly) for doing what they themselves do proudly. They began this, tellingly, by attacking Marxism, which was projection, as we’ll see.

