Individualismo metodológico y Liberalismo

Abstract

In opinion of the chief representatives of the Austrian School, the objetive of the theoretical social sciences is to elaborate a theory of human action under shortage conditions, while it is not difficult to particularize the reference to the theory of the subjective values of the Austrian marginalism. This theory, under the point of view of the social sciences philosophy, can be seen as an attempt to explain the social phenomenon and institutions as involuntary consequences of human actions endued with a limited and wrong knowledge. On the other hand, we must recall that such institutions have evolved deriving from the interaction with the individuals which they are related. This article's thesis develops as follows: in opinion of the chief representatives of the Austrian School, the methodological individualism is not only configurated as an explicative and methodological standard, but as the premise of a social sciences and political philosophy, trying to reveal their theoretical groundwork.