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Subject(s)

• Economics [Browse]
• Order [Browse]
• Order (Philosophy) [Browse]
• Free enterprise [Browse]
• Rule of law [Browse]

Editor

Caldwell, Bruce, 1952- [Browse]

Series

• Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992. Works. 1988 ; v. 15. [More in this series]
• Collected works of F.A. Hayek ; volume XV

Summary note

In addition to his groundbreaking contributions to pure economic theory, F.A. Hayek also closely examined the ways in which the knowledge of many individual market participants could culminate in an overall order of economic activity. His attempts to come to terms with the "knowledge problem" thread through his career and comprise the writings collected in the fifteenth volume of the University of Chicago Press's Collected Works of F.A. Hayek series. The Market and Other Orders brings together more than twenty works spanning almost forty years that consider this question. Consisting of speeches, essays, and lectures, including Hayek's 1974 Nobel lecture, "The Pretense of Knowledge," the works in this volume draw on a broad range of perspectives, including the philosophy of science, the physiology of the brain, legal theory, and political philosophy. Taking readers from Hayek's early development of the idea of spontaneous order in economics through his integration of this insight into political theory and other disciplines, the book culminates with Hayek's integration of his work on these topics into an overarching social theory that accounts for spontaneous order in the variety of complex systems that Hayek studied throughout his career. Edited by renowned Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell, who also contributes a masterly introduction that provides biographical and historical context, The Market and Other Orders forms the definitive compilation of Hayek's work on spontaneous order.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Editorial foreword
• Introduction
• Prologue : Kinds of rationalism (1965)
• Part I. The early ideas
• Economics and knowledge (1937)
• The facts of the social sciences (1943)
• The use of knowledge in society (1945)
• The meaning of competition (1948)
• Part II. From Chicago to Freiburg : further development
• The political ideal of the rule of law (1955)
• Lecture I. Freedom and the rule of law : a historical survey
• Lecture II. Liberalism and administration : the Rechtsstaat
• Lecture III. The safeguards of individual liberty
• Lecture IV. The decline of the rule of law
• Degrees of explanation (1955)
• The economy, science and politics (1963)
• Rules, perception and intelligibility (1962)
• Part III. A general theory of orders, with applications
• The theory of complex phenomena (1964)
• Notes on the evolution of systems of rules of conduct (1967)
• The results of human action but not of human design (1967)
• Competition as a Discovery Procedure (1968)
• The Primacy of the Abstract (1969)
• Appendix : The Primacy of Abstract : Discussion
• The errors of constructivism (1970)
• Nature vs. nurture once again (1971)
• The pretence of knowledge (1975)
• Appendix A.A new look at economic theory : four lectures given at the University of Virginia, 1961
• Lecture I. The object of economic theory
• Lecture II. The economic calculus
• Lecture III. Economics and technology
• Lecture IV. The communication function of the market
• Appendix B. Economists and philosophers : Walgreen Lecture, University of Chicago, 1963.

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ISBN

• 9780226089553 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
• 022608955X ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
• 9781138775596
• 1138775592

LCCN

2013023564

OCLC

833574270

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