TakingHayekSeriously
Taking Hayek Seriously provides an ongoing graduate seminar on the science and philosophy of Friedrich Hayek brought to you by Greg Ransom
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NOTES for a Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* History is often an exercise in inference to the best explanation, especially in evaluating testimony. C and K dismiss some testi...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* C & K miss the plot when they fail to see Hayek desperately seeking to remain within the deductive neo-Kantian framework of the M...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* All rapped up in one ball are: 1) Hayek's attempt to deal with the demand of Lowe and the historical and institutional economists...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* Almost all of Hayek's significant scientific books and papers begin with deliberations about the problem to be explain, and what...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* A repeated problem with the C & K book is a failure to provide sufficient and clear background context, motivation, and explicat...
NOTES for a Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* C & K let us know how Hayek in very old age can mythologize and misremember the past, and then they unfortunately endorse claims...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* More C & K weirdness: Walter Lippmann, the author of *Public Opinion* in 1922 -- which demonstrably influenced the thinking of i...
NOTES for my Definitive review of *Hayek: A Life* Hayek identified *The Road to Serfdom* as his "war work", the book was an independent spinoff of Hayek's "Abuse of Reason" projec...
There is big Hayek scholarship news in the new Caldwell & Klausinger biography of Hayek. The philosophically significant Hayek-Popper correspondence will appear as an additional vo...
*PRIDE AND ORDER: A STUDY OF THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN SOCIAL THOUGHT* by Daniel Luban https://t.co/RjOrsuumDv
1st paragraph of "Use of Knowdge in Society" summarized for a 2nd grader by OpenAI: We want to make an economic order that is fair and works well. We need to know what we want and...
Hayek's dad had his son read Ludwig Feuerbach at the age of 16 -- you can see the influence of Feuerbach all over the place in Hayek's work when Hayek talks about humans attributin...