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Is anything going to change? Emily Sellars, BroadstreetWhy I am not a liberal The Last Positivist, Sooty EmpiricHayek’s trap and the European utopia we need (pdf) Philippe Van ParijsSoviet children’s...
View ArticleA Note on “Hayekian” Empirical Normative Systems
In the first volume of Law, Legislation and Liberty (1973), we will find the most daring theses of Friedrich Hayek regarding the problem between law and politics. Just as his economic work of the...
View ArticleSome derivations from the uses of the terms “knowledge” and “information” in...
In 1945, Friedrich A. Hayek published under the title “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” in The American Economic Review, one of his most celebrated essays -both at the time of its appearance and...
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Rod Dreher is an unfamiliar figure in Britain Sebastian Milbank, the Critic“Cosmopolitanism and International Economic Institutions” (pdf) Turkuler Isiksel, Journal of PoliticsIn search of Islamic...
View ArticleA few words — and many quotations – about the influence of Ludwig...
In a brief autobiographical note, Friedrich Hayek refers to the influence he had received in his younger years from both his teacher Ernst Mach and his distant cousin Ludwig Wittgenstein: “But I did,...
View ArticleThe meaning of Hayek’s main views on monetary theory
The one who is set to determine what Friedrich Hayek’s monetary theory consisted of will discover that his was a labyrinthic exploration conducted to dead-ends, which taught him what paths not to...
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Think big, but don’t buy Greenland Scott Sumner, EconLog“Institutions, intentions, and Hayekian international relations” (pdf) Nicolas Onuf, RIS“F.A. Hayek and the Reinvention of Liberal...
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Houellebecq’s omelette Theodore Dalrymple, First ThingsHayek and the Lucas critique David Glasner, Uneasy MoneyAn interesting alternative to federation Maxwell Tabarrok, Maximum Progress (h/t Vishnu)
View ArticleHayek, or the Recursive Model of the Rule of Law
What Friedrich A. Hayek sought with his three volumes of Law, Legislation and Liberty was to propose a legal-political system in which the Rule of Law principle would not be de facto replaced by the...
View ArticleAgainst Hayek’s globalism
Ignacio, from X, put forth an objection that captures well the spirit of animosity towards worldwide federation under a Hayekian (or, dare I say, Madisonian?) constitutional order: With Hayek’s...
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