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Hayek speaking in 1983 at the 33rd Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau. The video contains many excellent photos of Hayek participating at these meetings over the years. Hayek happily reports on his sense of the vindication of long held views from his recent reading of Ernst Mayr’s landmark work The Growth of Biological . . . → Read More: VIDEO — HAYEK SPEAKING ON “EVOLUTION AND SPONTANEOUS ORDER”
This is excellent stuff: recently, [Iain Couzin] has modelled the behaviour of shoals of fish. He posited that how they swim will depend on each individual’s competing tendencies to stick close to the others (and thus move in the same direction as them) while not actually getting too close to any particular other fish. It . . . → Read More: LOCAL KNOWLEDGE & SPONTANEOUS ORDER .. IN A SHOAL OF FISH
A good deal of the academic literature on Hayek is horrible because the professors writing on Hayek are narrow specialists with limited cross disciplinary knowledge — and because these scholars attempt to explain and analyse Hayek based on a fatally incomplete reading of Hayeks complex cross disciplinary project. And repeatedly I see academics burdening Hayek . . . → Read More: Caldwell on Hayek and Spontaneous Order
Here’s a great discussion on the economics of Friedrich Hayek (mp3) placed in the context of the history of economics and philosophy of science. The speaker is Bruce Caldwell, author of Hayek’s Challenge.
 Comments are closed  Alfred Marshall, Biography, Bruce Caldwell, Collected Works, Ernst Mach, Friedman, Philosophy of Science, Positivism, Spontaneous Order Ligang Zhang, “On Hayek’s Spontaneous Order in Perspective of “Financial Tsunami””, Journal of Law & Politics, Vol. 2, No. 1. March 2009. Abstract: This paper tends to prove that the emergence of “financial tsunami” illustrates Hayek’s theory of spontaneous order in a sense. As the main theoretical tool for criticizing the socialism, Hayek defended for . . . → Read More: article: Spontaneous Order & Financial Tsunami
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