Author: Maria Alejandra Madi Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527548252 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 163
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This book examines the constructive crossing between philosophy, semiotics, and economics. The complexity of current socioeconomic policy problems demands revision of our conceptual outlooks and recognition of the importance of fresh insights into Keynes and Hayek in the context of capitalism and globalization, contributing to unprecedented social, political, and environmental challenges. Their contributions to economic theory, policy making and philosophical foundations are reconsidered here using the semiotic approach of Charles S. Peirce. The book provides accessible discussions on the role of semiotics in social sciences. Approaching philosophical problems using a semiotic approach requires overcoming and redefining preconceived ideas and conceptualizations of such problems. Throughout this work, the combination of Charles Peirce’s philosophical background with Keynes’s and Hayek’s contributions, as influential economic thinkers, permits a multifaceted dialogue, creating new conceptual, theoretical and methodological frameworks, preparing the reader for relevant real-world debates. This text serves to renew the bond between philosophy, semiotics, and economics and to rethink the paths to complexity.
Author: Nicholas Wapshott Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 039308311X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 400
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“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New Yorker As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s.
Author: Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 9781527545694 Category : Languages : en Pages : 163
Book Description
This book examines the constructive crossing between philosophy, semiotics, and economics. The complexity of current socioeconomic policy problems demands revision of our conceptual outlooks and recognition of the importance of fresh insights into Keynes and Hayek in the context of capitalism and globalization, contributing to unprecedented social, political, and environmental challenges. Their contributions to economic theory, policy making and philosophical foundations are reconsidered here using the semiotic approach of Charles S. Peirce. The book provides accessible discussions on the role of semiotics in social sciences. Approaching philosophical problems using a semiotic approach requires overcoming and redefining preconceived ideas and conceptualizations of such problems. Throughout this work, the combination of Charles Peirceâ (TM)s philosophical background with Keynes and Hayekâ (TM)s contributions, as influential economic thinkers, permits a multifaceted dialogue, creating new conceptual, theoretical and methodological frameworks, preparing the reader for relevant real-world debates. This text serves to renew the bond between philosophy, semiotics, and economics and to rethink the paths to complexity.
Author: Peter J. Boettke Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137411600 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 323
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This book explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek. Set within a context of the recent financial crisis, alongside the renewed interest in Hayek and the Hayek-Keynes debate, the book introduces the main themes of Hayek’s thought. These include the division of knowledge, the importance of rules, the problems with planning and economic management, and the role of constitutional constraints in enabling the emergence of unplanned order in the market by limiting the perverse incentives and distortions in information often associated with political discretion. Key to understanding Hayek's development as a thinker is his emphasis on the knowledge problem that economic decision makers face and how alternative institutional arrangements either hinder or assist them in overcoming that epistemic dilemma. Hayek saw order emerging from individual action and responsibility under the appropriate institutional order that itself emerges from actors discovering new and better ways to coordinate their behavior. This book will be of interest to all those keen to gain a deeper understanding of this great 20th century thinker in economics.
Author: F. A. Hayek Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226321282 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 323
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From a Nobel Laureate economist, a collection of essays outlining ideas on political theory, economic freedom and epistemology. Following on F. A. Hayek’s previous work Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (1967), New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas collects some of Hayek’s most notable essays and lectures dealing with problems of philosophy, politics and economics, with many of the essays falling into more than one of these categories. Expanding upon the previous volume the present work also includes a fourth part collecting a series of Hayek’s writings under the heading “History of Ideas.” Of the articles contained in this volume the lectures on “The Errors of Constructivism”and “Competition as a Discovery Procedure” have been published before only in German, while the article on “Liberalism” was written in English to be published in an Italian translation in the Enciclopedia del Novicento by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana at Rome.
Author: Stephen F. Frowen Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349259918 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 339
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This volume provides a critical assessment of the wide spectrum of Hayek's celebrated work as economist and social philosopher. Included are papers on Hayek's early writings in the field of monetary economics, on which his later campaign against inflation, his controversial proposal for competing currencies, and his negative view of the impact of trade unions on the economy are based. Hayek's social philosophy, often regarded as the centre piece of his famous work, and the fundamental findings about human thinking, society, the market system and social rules of conduct it is based on, is evaluated by leading contemporary social philosophers. The volume leaves little doubt as to the considerable impact of Hayek's thinking on economic policy and social philosophy.
Author: Jack Birner Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134869649 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 517
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Recent years have witnessed a remarkable revival in Hayek's reputation as an economist, a political philosopher, and an intellectual historian. This book shows why this revival has taken place by demonstrating the continuing relevance and vitality of Hayek's ideas. A group of internationally known scholars, of both the left and the right, critically assess his contribution to economics, political philosophy, legal theory, cognitive psychology and the history of ideas.
Author: Thomas Hoerber Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780237782 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 192
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Few thinkers better encapsulate the two polarities of economic and social thought in the twenty-first century than Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. Wrestling with the horrors of world wars, the atrocities of fascist regimes, the hungers of the Great Depression, and the turbulence of political ideologies as they grew evermore pitted against one another, both sought a cure for modernity’s terrible problems and a safeguard against future catastrophes—a task that would leave them with completely different conclusions. In this book, Thomas Hörber offers a clear historical account of the work of these two great figures of modern economic thought. Hoerber looks at the two central works that would alter the course of economic thought: Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. Placing them within the context of the devastation that followed World War I, he explains how the historical conditions in which these books were written help us better understand how their lessons can illuminate the economic and political phenomena of our own era, such as the recent financial crisis, globalization, and European integration. He shows how Keynes’s emphasis on government regulation through monetary and fiscal policy and Hayek’s great cautions against the tyrannies that can so easily arise from central planning have led to competing schools of economic thought. Making accessible classic economic theory and employing a qualitative method of economics, he offers an articulated account of how history has led to our current economic environment. With a broad perspective and incisive but clear examinations of important economic theories, this book places the two great economists of the twentieth-century within their historical context, illuminating how much we have learned—and can still learn—from them both.
Author: Andrew Gamble Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429721129 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 187
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Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He has also been much misunderstood. His work has crossed disciplines -- economics, philosophy and political science -- and national boundaries. He was an early critic of Keynes, and became famous in the 1940s for his warnings that the advance of collectivism in western democr
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