Dieser Beitrag erläutert (1) die Fragestellung des Hayekschen Gesamtwerks. Ferner skizziert er (2), wie Hayek diese Fragestellung mit seinem Ansatz bearbeitet hat. Sodann werden (3) Stärken und Schwächen dieses Ansatzes diskutiert. Abschließend (4) formuliert dieser Beitrag Lektionen für...

Recently, Aoki proposed the concept of substantive institutions which relates outcomes of strategic interaction with public representations of equilibrium states of games. I argue that the Aoki model can be grounded in theories of distributed cognition and performativity, which I put into the...

In recent extensions of the Darwinian paradigm into economics, the replicator-interactor duality looms large. I propose a strictly naturalistic approach to this duality in the context of the theory of institutions, which means that its use is seen as being always and necessarily dependent on...