Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society : Moving Beyond Methodological Individualism / edited by Guinevere Liberty Nell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nell, Guinevere Liberty, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austrian school of economics.

Individualism.

Physical Description:

vi, 186 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Can we improve upon both the free market and nationalization? Market socialist and other heterodox explorations of cultural and social factors can help answer this question using Austrian economic theory. This volume brings together economists and political scientists specializing in evolutionary change and spontaneous order. Spontaneous order and other Austrian theories are complemented by the consideration of cultural, social, and communal interaction. Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society bridges the gap between free market advocates stressing individual rights and individualistic culture, and left-leaning thinkers who stress social justice and a culture of social solidarity, or collectivism. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Surpassing Methodological Individualism

1 Methodological Individualism and Society: Hayek's Evolving View / Andy Denis Denis, Andy 7

2 From Methodological Individualism to Emergence, Ecology, and the Fluid Self: Exploring the Shift from Misesian to Hayekian Social Science / Gus diZerega diZerega, Gus 21

II Spontaneous Order and Society

3 Spontaneous Order and the Social Individual: Hayek, Democracy, and Public Choice / Guinevere Liberty Nell Nell, Guinevere Liberty 47

4 On the Varieties of Spontaneous Orders: From Cultures to Civil Societies and the Orders In Between / Troy Camplin Camplin, Troy 81

III Further Implications for Mind and Society

5 A Danse Macabre of Wants and Satisfactions: Hayek, Oakesliott, Liberty, and Cognition / Corey Abel Abel, Corey, Leslie Marsh Marsh, Leslie 107

6 The Internal and the External Freedoms: How Hayek's Ideas on Mind and Society Can Help Achieve Marx's Utopian Dreams / Guinevere Liberty Nell Nell, Guinevere Liberty 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137371409

1137371404

OCLC:

890011312