F.A Hayek is one of the most important and influential advocates of liberalism in the 20th century. His theory is … control and appears critical of every form of interventionism. At the same time Hayek also defends the necessity to improve or … even to constitute a liberal order. This seminal tension, between an evolutionary strand and a designing strand in Hayek …

Hayek's approach to cultural and institutional evolution has been frequently criticized because it is explicitly based … recent works on biological and cultural evolution. The paper's main contention is that Hayek employed group selection as a … equilibrium behavior (i.e. altruism). The paper shows that Hayek's ideas foreshadowed some of the most promising developments in …

F.A Hayek is one of the most important and influential advocates of liberalism in the 20th century. His theory is … control and appears critical of every form of interventionism. At the same time Hayek also defends the necessity to improve or … even to constitute a liberal order. This seminal tension, between an evolutionary strand and a designing strand in Hayek …

Hayek’s approach to cultural and institutional evolution has been frequently criticized because it is explicitly based … recent works on biological and cultural evolution. The paper’s main contention is that Hayek employed group selection as a … equilibrium behavior (i.e., altruism). The paper shows that Hayek’s ideas foreshadowed some of the most promising developments in …

This article proposes to reassess Hayek’s theory of cultural evolution in the light of Darwin’s Descent of Man. It is … shown that Hayek and Darwin refers to the same theory of human nature which is borrowed from the founding fathers of …

This paper examines two paths by which F. A. Hayek’s work has influenced the cognitive theory of institutions …