ISSN 2291-5079 Volume 7 | Issue 5 + 6 2020 COSMOS + TAXIS Studies in Emergent Order and Organization Symposium on Peter Boettke’s F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy COSMOS + TAXIS COVER ART: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization F. A. Hayek VOLUME 7 | ISSUE 5 + 6 2020 Attribution unknown EDITORIAL BOARDS IN THIS ISSUE HONORARY FOUNDING EDITORS EDITORS Joaquin Fuster David Emanuel Andersson* Introduction to Symposium on Peter Boettke’s University of California, Los Angeles (editor-in-chief) National Sun Yat-sen University, F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy David F. Hardwick* The University of British Columbia Taiwan and Social Philosophy ................................1 Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai William Butos University of Hong Kong (deputy editor) Mikayla Novak Trinity College Frederick Turner University of Texas at Dallas Laurent Dobuzinskis* A Galbraithian Perspective on Epistemic (deputy editor) Institutionalism and True Liberalism .................. 5 Simon Fraser University Giovanni B. Grandi Theodore Burczak (deputy editor) The University of British Columbia Hayek’s Appreciative Theory and Social Justice ........10 Leslie Marsh* Nick Cowen (managing editor) The University of British Columbia Before Kahneman and Tversky, Nathan Robert Cockram (assistant managing editor) There Was Friedrich Hayek ......................... 20 The University of British Columbia Roger Frantz CONSULTING EDITORS A Branch on the Mainline: Hayek’s Analysis Corey Abel Peter G. Klein of Complex Adaptive Systems ...................... 32 Denver Baylor University Gerald Gaus Thierry Aimar Paul Lewis Sciences Po Paris King’s College London F. A. Hayek, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, Nurit Alfasi Ted G. Lewis Ben Gurion University Technology Assessment Group Globalization and Digitalization ..................... 42 of the Negev Salinas, CA Stefan Kolev Theodore Burczak Joseph Isaac Lifshitz Denison University The Shalem College Epistemic institutionalism: Rules and Order, Gene Callahan Jacky Mallett New York University Reykjavik University Complexity, and Liberalism ......................... 50 Chor-Yung Cheung Alberto Mingardi Paul Lewis City University of Hong Kong Istituto Bruno Leoni Francesco Di Iorio Stefano Moroni You Can Take Hayek Out of Vienna… .................61 Nankai University, China Milan Polytechnic Adam Martin Gus diZerega* Edmund Neill Taos, NM New College of the Humanities Two Contrasting Views of People and Institutions Péter Érdi Mikayla Novak Kalamazoo College Australian National University in the Philosophical Anthropologies of Evelyn Lechner Gick Christian Onof Hayek and Marx .................................. 69 Dartmouth College Imperial College London Peter Gordon Mark Pennington David L. Prychitko University of Southern California King’s College London Lauren K. Hall* Jason Potts A Problem of Knowledge for Hayek ................. 75 Rochester Institute of Technology Royal Melbourne Institute Jeremy Shearmur Marek Hudik* of Technology University of Economics Prague Don Ross Response ........................................ 82 Sanford Ikeda University of Cape Town and Purchase College Georgia State University Peter J. Boettke State University of New York Virgil Storr George Mason University Editorial Information ............................... 87 Andrew Irvine The University of British Columbia Stephen Turner Byron Kaldis University of South Florida The Hellenic Open University Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo Ashford University *Executive committee http://cosmosandtaxis.org COSMOS + TAXIS COVER ART: F. A. Hayek Attribution unknown Introduction to Symposium on Peter Boettke’s F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy MIKAYLA NOVAK Australian National University Email: [email protected] Web: https://mikaylanovak.com INTRODUCTION tions of several property, relative prices and profit-and-loss signalling, is well canvassed in the book, which gradually Since his formative studies during the late 1980s, including builds into a most insightful discussion concerning the po- under the supervision of Don Lavoie, Peter Boettke has be- litical, social and cultural prerequisites and supports for the come widely recognised as an intellectual standard-bearer fullest exercise of human liberty that fallible-yet-capable for classical liberal political economy, not to mention a tire- human beings can muster. less public champion of liberty for all peoples irrespective of As praising to the contributions to political economy and their station in life. The scope of Boettke’s contributions to philosophical liberalism as Hayek was, and continues to be, our understanding of the nature and consequences of lib- Boettke duly recognises that no single person can unshroud 1 erty are both profound and widespread, illustrating a great all the mysteries that pervade humanity in one lifetime. sense of care and devotion to his intellectual craft as well as Hayek most certainly left some relatively under-explored flexibility necessary to remain relevant in a changing world. elements of a research agenda behind, and some elements Among Boettke’s many contributions are his studies of of his work had left questions with which we moderns con- comparative institutional analysis and institutional transi- tinue to grapple with today. One of the more important COSMOS + TAXIS + TAXIS COSMOS tions, economic calculation and market process, economic questions is covered on page 26 (Boettke 2018), referring to methodology, and the history of economic thought. A most famed correspondence between Hayek and his main intel- notable feature of his decades of scholarship is his unflinch- lectual rival, Keynes over the “drawing of the line” between ing interpretation of specific research questions through the free enterprise and planning. Austrian, Bloomington and Virginian strands of political There can be no doubt that in our time we, likewise, con- economy, all of which affirm the contributions of market tend with this key question. The boundaries of freedom economic coordination, social openness and limited-but- and coercion are, for many classical liberals of today, being effective political action toward the well-being of humanity. keenly tested with regard to confronting major challenges An endearing trait of Boettke is his preparedness to pub- such as inequality, climate change and, more recently, po- licly nominate his heroes and heroines, be it in the realm of larising socio-political tendencies and geopolitical tensions. political economy and liberal activism or even with regard As a matter of generic principle there seems little doubt that to his favourite sports of tennis and basketball. There are an efficacious way to drawing an acceptable line would rest no prizes for surmising that Friedrich Hayek ranks highly in playing an intellectually constructive, even adventurous, amongst Boettke’s intellectual heroes and role-models, and role as Hayek (1949) once put it, with the proviso of keeping his deep appreciation for Hayek’s legacy is wonderfully re- with cherished liberal principles such as (but not limited flected in his latest book,F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political to) autonomy, diversity, equality, experimentation, freedom Economy and Social Philosophy. and justice, as properly understood. Boettke provides a thematic investigation of the main Boettke’s name has been prominent among the voices of contributions of Hayek to twentieth (and, now, twenty-first) contemporary classical liberals prepared to wrestle with century political economy. The appreciation of Hayek’s major issues as they emerge. Two examples springing to economic contributions, with decentred plan-coordina- mind, even during the past year or so, are his joint works tion amongst the multitudes effected by underlying condi- with Paul Aligica and Vlad Tarko (2019) and with Henry Introduction to Symposium ON Peter Boettke’S F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy AND SOCIAL Philosophy Thompson (2019). What is particularly efficacious about Galbraithian tension, according to Burczak, concerns the Boettke’s book for established and aspirant scholars in the oppressive effects of economic organisation which, inciden- field of “Hayek Studies” is his even-handed explication of tally, is hinted at by Hayek with respect to a trade-off be- what he sees are the strengths and limitations of Hayek’s tween firm-based employment and independent proprietor- work (including with respect to social epistemology, ethi- ship (Hayek [1960] 2011). cal philosophy and political science). In effect, the book The versatility of Hayekian thought, as distinct from (in provides a useful “road map” of potential future research to some senses) Hayek’s own thoughts, is presented in Nick deploy Hayekian insights in the service of rendering liberal Cowen’s essay about the potential for rectification of social thinking both fertile and relevant. injustices. Hayek is well-known for his denigration of the Boettke’s book has generated much publicity and interest linguistic and philosophical bases of social justice, howev- within the academic community, and even beyond, and so er Cowen illustrates that there is ample room within civil it is fitting thatCosmos + Taxis have organised an invited society for emergent solutions to rectify the social injustic- group of academics, both well-established and emerging, in es of racism, sexism, and the like, in ways which preserve a symposium to critically discuss features of F. A. Hayek: the market-oriented economic order and the