Firms, in most cases, cannot be described adequately as if they were an individual person. And yet, they learn, anticipate, decide, and adapt in order to survive in an uncertain environment. To deal with such aspects of a firm, the theory of the anticipatory system is developed and applied to...

Does the production of scientific knowledge differ in certain important respects from the kinds of activity economics typicaly studies? If it does, the kinds of coordinating mechanisms at work in science that would allow us to see such activities as a Hayekian "order" might well differ from the...