Die Praxeologie von Ludwig von Mises – Ansatzpunkte zur Weiterentwicklung und ihr Anwendungspotenzial auf die Entrepreneurship-Forschung

The Praxeology of Ludwig von Mises – Starting Points for Further Development and its Potential for Application to Entrepreneurship ResearchLudwig von Mises is well known as an economist dealing with fundamental questions and central problems of his time, e.?g. choice of an efficient economic system for the economy as a whole (socialism, liberalism), problems and pitfalls of state regulation of private enterprise, monetary theory and monetary policy and business cycles caused by credit expansion and resulting interest reduction. Less know is that Mises also published methodological and epistemological papers. He created a methodological system which he called “praxeology”. This praxeological approach and possibilities for its application on entrepreneurship research are the topic of this paper. It will be shown that a reformulated praxeological approach is well suited to entrepreneurship research and can give many impulses for the analysis of entrepreneurial activity (e.g. strict focusing on individual action as central unit of analysis and research on the embeddedness of the entrepreneur in collective structures like markets, firm, state, country)