Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 199 pages)
ISBN:
9781315745114
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Content:
Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek are remembered as two of the twentieth century's greatest proponents of open society. However, over the years, Hayek's ideas have tended to be favoured over Popper's in both academic and political discussions. This book aims to improve understanding of Popper's and Hayek's philosophies by explaining their differences, and whilst doing so, to encourage liberal political philosophers to take a better-informed and more sympathetic look at Popper's ideas about open society. Popper and Hayek differed in subtle but fundamental ways about rationality, economism, an
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Rationality; Aspects of the problem; Scientism; The unity of method; Piecemeal social engineering; Interventionism; Anti- rationalism and the spontaneous growth of the undesigned; Rationalizing the irrational; Rational arguments against socialism; Change; 2 Economism; The poverty of economism; Freedom or prosperity?; Individual, political, inner, and economic freedom; Hayek's case for individual freedom; Socratic freedom and coercion
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Freedom, power, and 'true coercion'The paradoxes of freedom; Rights and powers; The freedom of private property; The rule of law; Economism and totalitarianism; Essence and ideology; The poverty of economism revisited; Liberty, equality, and fraternity; 3 Democracy; Majority rule; Democracy and liberalism; Market democracy; Institutional control; Tyranny; Government under the law; Open society and the democratic state; Open society and the strain of civilization; Hayek's open society; The rule of Hayekian law; The paradox of democracy; The tyranny of liberalism; Illiberal democracy
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Liberty, equality, fraternity-and securityTrial by jury; Understanding democracy and open society; Conclusion; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317594215
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415720038
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Notturno, Mark A. Hayek and Popper London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2014 ISBN 9780415720038
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Hayek, Friedrich A. von 1899-1992
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Popper, Karl R. 1902-1994
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Rationalität
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Liberalismus
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Demokratie
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