This paper is organized as follows : First we show that the reference to the notion of group selection is coherent with the other parts of Hayek's thought. Second we develop the idea that recent works in terms of the emergence and evolution of social norms corroborate in part Hayek's theses in...

In 1940 Schumpeter wrote a paper entitled: "The Meaning of Rationality in the Social Sciences", which was intended to one of the meetings of a seminar including Talcott Parsons, Wassilly Léontief, Paul Sweezy and other Harvard scholars, that he took the initiative to start. In this paper...

Cet article est organisé de la façon suivante : dans un premier temps nous montrons que la référence à la notion de sélection de groupe n'est pas incohérente avec les autres éléments de la pensée hayékienne. Nous développons ensuite l'idée que les travaux récents en matière...

[eng] Production structure and knowledge: towards an Austrian theory of the firm. . . In this contribution, our aim is to melt in the same analytical framework the Austrian conceptions, on the one hand, of the structure of production, and on the other hand, of the dynamics of knowledge; and then...

This paper surveys alternative approaches to the emergence and evolution of institutions. The challenge is to develop frameworks capable of capturing both stability and change. We follow a "descaling" approach to show how founding assumptions about economics--namely, alternative assumptions...

This paper is organized as follows : we first show that the notion of group selection is coherent with the other parts of Hayek's writings. Second we develop the idea that recent works in terms of the emergence and evolution of social norms corroborate in part Hayek's theses in this domain....