tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post6256325947251400353..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: Hayek and Science: A Liberty Fund ConferenceLarry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-1519327151144495182010-11-12T20:13:18.506+00:002010-11-12T20:13:18.506+00:00Hayek shared Nobel prize with Gunnar Myrdal. While...Hayek shared Nobel prize with Gunnar Myrdal. While very dissimilar in thought both wrote about this problem. Some of Myrdal's thinking is available in his "The Political Element in the development of Economic Theory."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-28338424312686453352010-11-12T01:54:47.480+00:002010-11-12T01:54:47.480+00:00"Liberty Fund and Hayek" lead me to hope..."Liberty Fund and Hayek" lead me to hope that one day I will get to hear you interviewed by Russ Roberts on EconTalk.<br /><br />-wbondW. Bondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11876061563314623223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-4830430570515915162010-11-10T23:57:06.411+00:002010-11-10T23:57:06.411+00:00Hayek's argument is that empirical PROBLEMS ar...Hayek's argument is that empirical PROBLEMS are the beginning of science, and the problem of design-like order can be found in both Darwinian biology and in economics -- and in both sciences a systematic causal mechanism explains the existence of that order.<br /><br />In the case of economics, Hayek identifies entrepreneurial learning in the context of changing relative prices and local conditions as the causal explanatory factor explaining the generation of plan-like order in the overall extended economy of coordinated production and consumption plans.Greg Ransomhttp://hayekcenter.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-58065711490068582552010-11-10T22:47:15.039+00:002010-11-10T22:47:15.039+00:00Hayek's definition of "scientism" wa...Hayek's definition of "scientism" was the attempt by the social sciences to imitate a MISTAKEN picture of the physical sciences.<br /><br />Hayek's exemplars of scientism were Neurath and Bacon -- and it is clear that he was also thinking of Schumpeter's adoption of Mach's picture of "science" as the "method" for economics. Note well that Samuelson adopted his teacher Schumpeter's picture, and helped spread various versions of it throughout the profession.Greg Ransomhttp://hayekcenter.orgnoreply@blogger.com