Mengerian Microeconomics: The Forgotten Anglo-American Contribution to the Austrian School
Webpage Austrian EconomicsAustrian SchoolCarl Mengerclassical liberalismivan jankovic
Webpage Austrian EconomicsAustrian SchoolCarl Mengerclassical liberalismivan jankovic
This past weekend I had the good fortune to attend an intimate conference on Ludwig Lachmann, a name that has been lingering in the air for me for many years but that I’d never got round to actually reading. Not only did I for the most part find Lachmann’s writing, notably The Market As an Economic Process,…
Marion Fourcade in the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics. Austrian Schooldistributed knowledgeEconomicsFriedrich HayekMarion FourcadeSociology
Three sections: Neuroscience — Philosophy of Mind — Mind and Sociality Austrian SchoolCognitive scienceFriedrich HayekHayek in Mindneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
The very excellent Paul Lewis has a new and freely available article here. Austrian SchoolchoiceEmergenceHayekimaginationMindPaul LewisPsychologyShacklethe sensory orderuncertainty
Latest issue Austrian Schoolcomplexitycosmos & taxisdemocracydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeemergent orderexistentialismFriedrich HayekLiberalismphilosophy of social scienceSpontaneous order
In Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society: Moving Beyond Methodological Individualism In this chapter our aim is to rescue the meaning of liberty from the ministrations of its misguided friends and explore how it relates to human nature, culture, and economic order. Some Austrian economists have embraced liberty as the sole value. Despite the…
Forthcoming from my chum and endorsed by none other than Barry Smith. Adam SmithAustrian SchoolCognitionCognitive sciencecomplexitydistributed cognitionenactivismFrancesco Di IorioHayekHermeneuticsholismmethodological individualismphenomenologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of social scienceSelf-organizationsituated cognitionsocial epistemologysocial ontologySocial SciencesSociologySpontaneous orderthe sensory order
Several papers relating to extended mind, collective belief and extended knowledge in Philosophical Issues. Not one mention of Hayek . . . and minimal network or complexity theory. Still, a very useful collection and clearly the tide has turned in social epistemology towards notions of distributed knowledge which I’ve been claiming for years is the sin…
My Cousin, Ludwig Wittgenstein — a lovely memoir (see family tree below). The first extract below (The New Yorker) reminded me of the Percy legacy (second extract). Wittgenstein, once asked a pupil if he had ever had any tragedies in his life. The pupil, evidently well trained, inquired what he meant by “tragedy.” “I mean suicides,…