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Critique Of Hayek's Liberalism And The Rule Of Law, Kacper Mykietyn
Critique Of Hayek's Liberalism And The Rule Of Law, Kacper Mykietyn
Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas
In this paper, I raise a few doubts about the adequacy of Hayek's liberal theory and the rule of law in the twenty-first century. I argue that the theory 1) fails to be morally neutral by not giving proper attention to the harm experienced by the minorities, 2) does not acknowledge a satisfactory account for the exploitation of the working class, and 3) operates with a parochial definition of freedom.
Planning Against Planning: Friedrich Hayek's Utopian Vision Of The Good Society, Nicholas Kuipers
Planning Against Planning: Friedrich Hayek's Utopian Vision Of The Good Society, Nicholas Kuipers
Honors Papers
Against the conventional wisdom, I will argue in this paper that Hayek's political philosophy contains a utopian vision of the good society. By adopting and building on Isaiah Berlin's conception of utopia as a state of static perfection, I will argue that such a vision is implied, if not overtly stated, in Hayek's work. First, Hayek's view that there ought to be a relentless application of an unfettered market mechanism brings about, as he would have it, a static and perfect outcome by whittling away inefficient alternatives to yield a perfectly efficient outcome. In applying an unfettered market mechanism to …
Ciclos Econômicos: Uma Análise Comparativa Entre A Teoria De Kondratieff E Da Escola Austríaca De Economia, Lucas Mendes
Ciclos Econômicos: Uma Análise Comparativa Entre A Teoria De Kondratieff E Da Escola Austríaca De Economia, Lucas Mendes
Lucas Mendes
Monografia de Graduação para obtenção do título de Bacharel em Economia pela Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul - UNIJUÍ, Curso de Economia.
From Hayek To Keynes: G.L.S. Shackle And Our Ignorance Of The Future, Greg Hill
From Hayek To Keynes: G.L.S. Shackle And Our Ignorance Of The Future, Greg Hill
Greg Hill
G.L.S. Shackle stood at the historic crossroads where the economics of Hayek and Keynes collided. Shackle fused these opposing lines of thought in a macroeconomic theory that draws Keynesian conclusions from Austrian premises. In Shackle’s scheme of thought, the power to imagine alternative courses of action releases decision makers from the web of predictable causation. But the continuous stream of spontaneous and unpredictable choices that originate in the subjective and disparate orientations of individual agents denies us the possibility of rational expectations, and therewith the logical coherence of market equilibrium through time.
Piac És Igazságosság? (Market And Justice?), Attila Tanyi
Piac És Igazságosság? (Market And Justice?), Attila Tanyi
Attila Tanyi
The aim of the book is to uncover the relation between market and justice through the critical examination of the work of Friedrich Hayek. The book argues for the following thesis: the institution of free market is not the only candidate social system; substantial, not merely formal distributive justice must become the central virtue of our social institutions. Notwithstanding its achievements and virtues, the Hayekian theory makes a simple mistake by equivocating possible social systems, dividing them into two groups. One is the world of liberty and free market where people follow the general and abstract rules of conduct, accepting …
F. A. Hayek On The Role Of Reason In Human Affairs, Linda Catherine Raeder
F. A. Hayek On The Role Of Reason In Human Affairs, Linda Catherine Raeder
Master's Theses
This-study examines the views of F. A. Hayek on the role of reason in human affairs. The author explicates certain elements of Hayekian theory that bear on this issue-his views on the nature of mind, rules, law, and cultural evolution-and discusses the characteristics of both the constructivist and critical "kinds of rationalism" Hayek identifies. She then examines the views of various critics who have challenged Hayek's argument. She concludes that, contrary to certain critics, 1) the distinction he draws between constructivist and critical rationalism is meaningful and that the two kinds of rationalism appear to be related to certain political …