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Friedrich Hayek was a fervent advocate of the methodological specificity of the social sciences. However, given his contact with Karl Popper, several historians and philosophers have characterised his final position as Popperian, that is, a position that would have accepted the unity of the...
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Although Schütz's relationship with the Austrian school of economics was an intimate one, Lavoie and other Austrian scholars have challenged (a) Schütz's characterization of praxeology as an objective science of subjective phenomena and (b) the ability of Schütz's phenomenology, which...
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F.A Hayek is one of the most important and influential advocates of liberalism in the 20th century. His theory is …'s political theory, gave birth to a set of debates regarding the consistency of Hayek's thinking. In this article I argue, against … several commentators and critics, that the theory of spontaneous order, which draws on complexity theory and cultural …
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The Brexit vote surprised and even astonished a large number of people around the world who could not – and cannot – understand why citizens of the United Kingdom would vote to secede from the European Union. If, however, one understands not just the current problems the British citizenry...
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This is an uncorrected author's draft of a paper forthcoming in Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society (2015). For citation and quoting purposes, please use the published version, available from September 24, 2014 on the Critical Review Web site's 'latest articles' page. The notion...
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For more than two centuries, liberal constitutionalists have championed the separation of powers as a means of constraining self-interested political activity that erodes personal freedom. Although F. A. Hayek values the separation of powers, he contends that it cannot safeguard individual...
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In the 1950s, Jacques Rueff’s references to social order seem pretty clear: it is not a spontaneous phenomena. Although Rueff is generally seen as a liberal economist, this has prompted commentators to see in his approach something more artificial than Hayek’s own ideas on social order....
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Order on my 2010 book, Mind, Society, and Human Action: Time and Knowledge in a Theory of Social Economy. This essay offers …
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