Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism
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“China’s Hayek” and the Horrors of Totalitarianism: The Liberal Lessons in Gu Zhun’s Thought
Chapter 10, Chor-yung Cheung: chinachor-yung cheungclassical liberalismdemocracyFriedrich HayekGu Zhuntotalitarianism
If You’re a Classical Liberal, How Come You’re Also an Egalitarian?
Åsbjørn Melkevikclassical liberalismegalitarianFriedrich HayekMilton Friedmansocial justice
Symposium on Peter Boettke’s “F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy”
Austrian Economicscosmos & taxisEconomicsFriedrich HayekPeter Boettkepolitical economysocial philosophy
. . . but our brain can’t understand the picture
Hayek already wrote in The Sensory Order (1952) that “An apparatus of classification cannot explain anything more complex than itself” and that “The whole idea of the mind explaining itself is a logical contradiction’’. Hayek takes this incompleteness — the constitutional inability of mind to explain itself — to be a generalized case of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. See…
The Beginnings of Behavioral Economics
My chum and sometime collaborator Roger Frantz has a new book out. Amos TverskyBehavioral economicsDaniel KahnemanFriedrich HayekGeorge KatonaHarvey LeibensteinHerbert SimonRichard Thalerroger frantzX-efficiency theory
Property Rights: The Argument for Privatization
Walter’s latest. capitalismclassical liberalismFriedrich HayekLibertarianismpolitical economyprivatizationproperty rightswalter block
The Jews and Capitalism
The always provocative Walter Block’s rumination from a few years back in Psychology Today on a species of what I term the “dhimmi” Jew. This is also related to what Gad Saad has termed as Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome. Bosch FawstincapitalismFriedrich HayekJewsOstrich Parasitic Syndromeregressive leftRobert Nozickwalter block
The Anglo-American Conception of the Rule of Law
classical liberalismFriedrich HayekMichael OakeshottNadia NedzelNicholas Capaldiphilosophical jurisprudencerule of law
Joaquín Fuster
Happy birthday to Joaquín. Here is a bio-sketch of Joaquín’s life and a summary of his work. Also check out Joaquín’s “Hayek in Today’s Cognitive Neuroscience” which he wrote for my edited collection in 2011. Some 20 years ago I gave a talk on Hayek’s philosophical psychology examining the continuities between Hayek’s social connectionism and…
