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On this blog, I’ve sometimes defended Hayek against unfair attacks (see here, here and here). And I’ve recently read that Brad DeLong has repeated the falsehood that Hayek understood himself to be arguing that “regulatory intervention was in the long run incompatible with a free society,” in [...]
Schmidtz on Hayek at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
By Matt Zwolinski On September 16, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Book/Article Reviews, Economics
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new essay up on Friedrich Hayek. This is good news.
Here’s some even better news: it is written by David Schmidtz. For those of you who don’t know, Dave is the founder and director of the Freedom Center at [...]
Many of our readers appreciated Elizabeth Anderson’s contribution to this blog a few months back, critical though it was of many key libertarian claims. I did too, though that’s no surprise as I’ve long been a fan of her [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
Will Wilkinson’s subtle and probing contribution to this symposium asks: how Hayekian is Free Market Fairness? The answer depends in [...]
[Editor's Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium, click here.]
Let me begin by saying that, according to any sensible system of classification, John and I share the same political [...]
Every once in a while folks in the political corner of the blogosphere start talking about Hayek’s argument in The Road to Serfdom. As Matt Yglesias said Monday, lots of people, conservatives and liberals alike, say that Hayek believed that any welfare state inevitably leads to totalitarianism. Then some people who have actually [...]
Until recently, I had only read the first two books of Hayek’s grand trilogy Law, Legislation and Liberty. People told me that the third book was the least interesting. The real action, they said, was in the first two books. I decided to see for myself [...]
Today we pause to note the 20th anniversary of the death of F. A. Hayek, perhaps the most important social thinker of the 20th century and a man whose ideas still remain ahead of their time and distorted and misunderstood by the supposed intellectual elite. There are so many great Hayek quotes one could deploy [...]
Last week in my Constitutional Economics class we discussed Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty (1960). My favorite chapter in that book is Chapter 2, “The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization.” Hayek argued that “Liberty is essential in order to leave room for the unforeseeable and unpredictable; we want it [...]
Libertarians sometimes take their analogies too far. From the plausible insight that taxation is like forced labor certain respects, they jump to the entirely implausible conclusion that taxation is forced labor. To libertarians, this move appears to be a penetrating insight into the “essence” of taxation. To non-libertarians, it appears to be a kind of [...]
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