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| Named Person: | Friedrich A von Hayek; Friedrich A von Hayek; Friedrich August Hayek |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steve Fleetwood |
| ISBN: | 0415129095 9780415129091 |
| OCLC Number: | 32203546 |
| Description: | xi, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Philosophy -- 3. The Philosophy Underlying Hayek II's Socio-Economic Theory -- 4. The Methodology Underlying Hayek II's Socio-Economic Theory -- 5. The Implications of Hayek II's Philosophy and Method for His Socio-Economic Theory -- 6. Hayek III's Quasi-Transcendental Realist Philosophy -- 7. Knowledge, Ignorance and Social Rules of Conduct -- 8. Rules and the Cognitive Psychology Underpinning Rule-Following -- 9. The Articulation Between Social Rules of Conduct and the Telecommunications System -- 10. Hayek III's Transformational Conception of Spontaneous Socio-Economic Order. |
| Series Title: | Routledge studies in the history of economics, 3. |
| Responsibility: | Steve Fleetwood. |
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Abstract:
In a society where no central agency co-ordinates the human activity of producing, selling and buying, why is there order and not chaos? This fundamental question has taxed generations of economists. Hayek's notion of spontaneous order goes some way to providing an answer. Hayek's Political Economy argues that, after explicitly rejecting positivism, Hayek was free to embrace reality and offer an explanation of the processes involved in bringing about order. This book draws many of Hayek's insights together by locating them within the newly emerging methodological perspective of critical realism. The author argues that understanding how agents communicate knowledge and cope with ignorance leads directly to a focus upon social rules which are essential in addressing the question of order. The final chapter illustrates how it is possible to abandon the notion of equilibrium without falling into analytical anarchy.
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- Hayek, Friedrich A. von -- (Friedrich August), -- 1899-1992.
- Economics -- History -- 20th century.
- Austrian school of economics -- History.
- Economics
- Economische filosofie.
- Oostenrijkse school.
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von
- Wirtschaftsordnung
- Hayek, Friedrich August -- (1899-1992).
- Économie politique -- 20e siècle.
- École autrichienne d'économie politique -- Histoire.
- Histoire économique.
- Ecole autrichienne.
