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Yes. I think methodological individualism is a highly problematic framework that does not capture the realities of the human condition. Now, as a classical liberal, my political philosophy is grounded in individualism. But unlike Austrians and libertarians, I do not completely deny the relevance of collective considerations such as negative externalities and collective action problems. I don’t think, like many libertarians and Austrians do, that thinking that the state has a role to play in these arenas, that it’s a slippery slope to totalitarianism or socialism.

satoshi jr 2y ago

So I'm not super well versed in Austrian economics but I've always thought you could capture the aspects like family and friend and community as being the emergent phenomena of individuals choosing to make those groups and associations.

I.e it makes economic sense to make group associations if you consider the cost benefits of them across time even if they don't make sense at every moment in time. Though I can see the argument that using DNA as the basis for the analysis for families makes more sense than using the individual human.

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