Here is a transcript of a 15.25-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program and the Pacific Academy of Advanced Studies. I haven’t read the piece so I can’t vouch for its quality (I don’t recognise the interviewers). Anyway, one would hope that there will be some interest within the 1,046…
I want to bring your attention to this superb paper by Jacky Mallett (one of the sharpest minds around) published in Studies in Emergent Order, Spring 2009, Vol. 2.
Here is a lecture on Hayek by disciple Kurt Leube, someone I have had a brief correspondence with. Not deep stuff but I suppose a decent introduction. Interestingly enough he touches upon The Sensory Order though Leube’s enthusiasm for/assessment of this work is way over the top: “TSO is one of the most celebrated books…
Here is a characteristically lucid piece by Ken Minogue on Oakeshott’s supposed conservatism. It should be noted that conservatism as Oakeshott understood it, is an anathema to “conservatism” understood in the American context. I take the view that these the terms are not at all helpful and are, for the most part, vulgarized. Oakeshott was…
Here is a terrific presentation entitled “Macrotermes as models of swarm cognition” by Scott Turner. He writes: This presentation was given at the Workshop on Research Efforts and Future Directions in Neuroergonomics and Neuromorphics sponsored by the US Army Research Office on 23-25 October 2007 in College Park Maryland. The presentation outlines the developing theme…
Hayek’s notion of cognitive closure, a mark of the human condition, can be ameliorated if the social and artifactual world functions as a kind of distributed extra-neural memory store manifest as dynamic traditions, part of the resources for acting, thinking or communicating. This cognitive¬epistemological¬liberty tripartite is closely related to a long-standing bone of contention in…
Here is an interview with Hayek by John O’Sullivan (yes, the John O’Sullivan of O’Sullivan’s First Law.) Some time ago I posted a rather poor quality version of it – this one seems OK. This version I found via The Austrian Economists blog.
Oops, forgot to publish this two days ago!
Now it is becoming clear that group decisions are also extremely valuable for the success of social animals, such as ants, bees, birds and dolphins. And those animals may have a thing or two to teach people about collective decision-making. There’s an article in the Economist entitled “Decisions, decisions: What people can learn from how social…
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