Check out this special issue of the Cosmos + Taxis journal on Scott Schealls book “F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics”. It features interesting contributions from NOUS members Peter Boettke, Eric Schliesser, Erwin Dekker and Roger Koppl. The full issue is available for free online.
F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics is an exploration of an important problem that has largely been ignored heretofore: the problem of policymaker ignorance and the consequences of limited political knowledge. In his latest book, NOUS member Scott Scheall explores the significance of the fact that the possibilities for Read more…
The purpose of this chapter is to link Ronald Coase’s methodological approach to what he ‘learned’ when he was at the London School of Economics (LSE) from Edwin Cannan and Arnold Plant. The main lesson Coase taught us and insisted upon was that economics should not be too ‘abstract’ and Read more…
This essay reviews Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, which triggered a huge controversy that virally spread on the internet and in various journals. We will evaluate MacLean’s almost biographical account of James Buchanan, which portrays the 1986 Nobel Prize Read more…