Hayek, F. A. von
09 Feb 2020 14:05
Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder.
It is important, when reading Hayek, to always bear in mind the distinction between Hayek-the-profound-social-scientist, and his evil twin, Hayek-the-right-wing-ideologue. The two are present, in my experience, within every book, sometimes both appearing within a single paragraph.
See also: Collective Cognition; Duality between Knowledge Centralization and Market Completeness?; Economics; Evolutionary Economics; Institutions; Neural Nets, Connectionism, Perceptrons, etc.; Philosophies' Evil Twins; Karl Popper; Positivism; Self-Organization; Socialist Calculation Debate
- Recommended, by Hayek:
- Individualism and Economic Order ["The Use of Knowledge in Society" is superb, and in "Economics and Knowledge" he seems to have been channeling evolutionary game theory... In other essays, the evil twin is very much in evidence.]
- "Competition as a Discovery Procedure" (in New Studies)
- Recommended, about Hayek:
- Alan Haworth, Anti-Libertarianism: Markets, Philosophy and Myth
- John O'Neil, "Knowledge, Planning, and Markets: A Missing Chapter in the Socialist Calculation Debates", Economics and Philosophy 22 (2006): 55--78 [On the exchange between Hayek and Neurath.]
- Jim Tomlinson, Hayek and the Market
- To read:
- Theodore A. Burczak, Socialism after Hayek
- Hayek
- The Constitution of Liberty
- The Counter-Revolution of Science
- New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas
- The Sensory Order