Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society Moving Beyond Methodological Individualism

by Nell, Guinevere Liberty

• ISBN13: 9781137371409
• ISBN10: 1137371404
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Can we improve upon both the free market and nationalization? Market socialist and other heterodox exploration of cultural and social factors can help answer this question using Austrian economic theory.

This volume brings together economists and political scientists specializing in evolutionary change and spontaneous order. Spontaneous order and other Austrian theories are complemented by the consideration of cultural, social and communal interaction. Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society bridges the gap between free market advocates stressing individual rights and individualistic culture, and left-leaning thinkers who stress social justice and a culture of social solidarity, or collectivism.

Author Biography

Guinevere Liberty Nell studies and publishes in the areas of Austrian economics, economic policy, and Soviet economic history, and worked as a tax policy analyst for five years at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC before earning a Master's Degree from the University of Warwick, UK, in Soviet economic history. She is the author of Rediscovering Fire and Spontaneous Order and the Utopian Collective, and editor of Basic Income and the Free Market and this book's companion, Austrian Theory and Economic Organization.

Table of Contents

PART I: SURPASSING METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM
1. Methodological Individualism and Society: Hayek's View; Andy Denis
2. From Methodological Individualism to Emergence, Ecology, and the Fluid Self: Exploring the Shift from Misesian to Hayekian Social Science; Gus DiZerega
PART II: SPONTANEOUS ORDER AND SOCIETY
3. Spontaneous Order and the Social Individual: Hayek, Democracy, and Public Choice; Guinevere Liberty Nell
4. On the Varieties of Spontaneous Orders: From Cultures to Civil Societies and the Orders In Between; Troy Camplin
PART III: FURTHER IMPLICATIONS FOR MIND AND SOCIETY
5. A Danse Macabre of Wants and Satisfactions: Hayek, Oakeshott, Liberty, and Cognition; Corey Abel and Leslie Marsh
6. The Internal and External Freedoms: Hayek, Mind, and Society; Guinevere Liberty Nell