Hayek's political economy : the socio-economics of order / / Steve Fleetwood

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456037203321
• Autore: Fleetwood Steve <1955, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
• ISBN: 0-415-86731-2; 9786610070947; 1-280-07094-3; 1-134-79475-4; 0-585-44738-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 330/.092
• Soggetti: Economics - History - 20th century; Austrian school of economics - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; HAYEK'S POLITICAL ECONOMY: The socio-economics of order; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; THE ORIGIN OF THE INQUIRY INTO SOCIO-ECONOMIC ORDER; SMITH'S HEIRS; SITUATING HAYEK IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT; THE ARGUMENT OF THE BOOK IN A NUTSHELL; 2 PHILOSOPHY; EPISTEMOLOGY AND ONTOLOGY; KANT'S SUBJECTIVE-IDEALIST EPISTEMOLOGY; TWO ONTOLOGIES; EMPIRICAL REALISM; TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM AND POSITIVISM; CLARIFICATION OF CATEGORIES AND TERMINOLOGY7; CONCLUSION; 3 THE PHILOSOPHY UNDERLYING HAYEK II's SOCIO-ECONOMIC THEORY; HAYEK'S PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION IN NATURAL SCIENCEHAYEK'S PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE; CONCLUSION; 4 THE METHODOLOGY UNDERLYING HAYEK II's SOCIO-ECONOMIC THEORY; SUBJECTIVISM; HERMENEUTIC FOUNDATIONALISM; THE ACTIONS OF AGENTS ARE MOTIVATED BY IDEAS; THE NATURE OF SOCIAL WHOLES; THE GOAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, 1: UNDERSTANDING; THE GOAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, 2: EXPLANATION; METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM ; AND THE COMPOSITIVE METHOD; SUBJECTIVISED POSITIVISM; CONCLUSION; 5 THE IMPLICATIONS OF HAYEK II's PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD FOR HIS SOCIO-ECONOMIC THEORY; KNOWLEDGE; EQUILIBRIUM; AGENCY; THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM OF THE PRICE MECHANISMCONCLUSION; 6 HAYEK III's QUASI-TRANSCENDENTAL REALIST PHILOSOPHY; TRANSCENDENTAL REALISM; HAYEK III's QUASI-TRANSCENDENTAL REALISM; THE TRANSFORMATIONAL MODEL OF SOCIAL ACTIVITY (TMSA); A SWITCH IN THE MODE OF THEORISING; CONCLUSION: ONTOLOGY AND IMPLICATIONS OF HAYEK I, II AND III; 7 KNOWLEDGE, IGNORANCE AND SOCIAL RULES OF CONDUCT; IGNORANCE; KNOWLEDGE; THE NATURE OF SOCIAL RULES: THE EMBODIMENT OF KNOWLEDGE; 8 RULES AND THE COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY UNDERPINNING RULE-FOLLOWING; SOME PRELIMINARY COMMENTS ON RULES; SOCIAL RULES OF CONDUCT; RULES OF PERCEPTIONTHE ARTICULATION BETWEEN RULES OF PERCEPTION AND RULES OF CONDUCT; EXPECTATIONS; SOCIAL RULES VARY IN THE DEGREE OF ABSTRACTNESS OR GENERALITY; HAYEK III's PHILOSOPHY AND THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE MIND; CONCLUSION; 9 THE ARTICULATION BETWEEN SOCIAL RULES OF CONDUCT AND THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM; THE ARTICULATION BETWEEN PRICES AND RULES; THE TELECOM SYSTEM AS A STIMULUS TO KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; THE TELECOM SYSTEM IS EMBEDDED IN A NETWORK OF RULES; RULES AND KNOWLEDGE WHEN THE TELECOM SYSTEM IS INOPERATIVE; ADVANTAGES OF HAYEK'S CONCEPTION; 10 HAYEK III's TRANSFORMATIONAL CONCEPTION OF SPONTANEOUS SOCIO-ECONOMIC ORDERTHE ARGUMENT IN SUMMARY; ONTOLOGY, METHOD, EQUILIBRIUM AND EMPIRICAL REALISM; ORDER VERSUS EQUILIBRIUM; ONTOLOGY, METHOD, TRANSFORMATION AND CRITICAL REALISM; THE MARKET PROCESS OR CATALLAXY; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: In a society where no central agency coordinates the human activity of producing, selling and buying, why is there order and not chaos? This fundamental question has taxed generations of economists. Hayek's notion of spontaneous order goes some way to providing an answer.<BR>Hayek's Political Economy argues that afer explicitly rejecting positivism, Hayek was free to embrace reality and offer an explanation of the process involved in bringing about order.