Friedrich Hayek, Austrian Economist

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Horwitz
Keyword(s):  
Austrian Economist ◽  
Friedrich Hayek

Kokoro Confidential

2016 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-115
Author(s):  
Brian Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Natsume Soseki ◽  
Dissertation Advisor ◽  
Austrian Economist ◽  
Modern Japan ◽  
The University ◽  
Friedrich Hayek

As a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the mid-1950s, Edwin McClellan (1925–2009) translated into English the most famous novel of modern Japan, Kokoro (1914), by Natsume Sōseki. This essay tells the story of how the translation emerged from and appealed to a nascent neoliberal movement that was led by Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), the Austrian economist who had been McClellan’s dissertation advisor.

scholarly journals Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quinn Slobodian
Keyword(s):  
International Order ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Ludwig Von Mises ◽  
Austrian Economist ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Open Borders ◽  
International Theory ◽  
Von Mises

While the Viennese origins of key neoliberal intellectuals is well known, the formative influence of the Habsburg Empire on their thought is surprisingly understudied. This article argues that the empire was a silent and open partner in the writings of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises on international order, especially on questions of migration and the management of a polyglot population. After 1918 Mises conceived of robust forms of multinational governance capable of protecting a world of what he called ‘perfect capitalism’ with total global mobility of labour, capital and commodities. Yet, by 1945 he had scaled back his proposals to the effective recreation of the Habsburg Empire. I show that Mises’s international theory was cleft by a faultline between a normative theory of an open borders world and the empirical reality of a closed borders world, underwritten by what he saw as the stubborn obstacles of human ignorance and racial animus.

scholarly journals Social justice and the formal principle of freedom

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-284
Author(s):  
Olga Nikolic ◽  
Igor Cvejic
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Obligation ◽  
Free Society ◽  
Robert Nozick ◽  
Formal Principle ◽  
The Right ◽  
Friedrich Hayek

The aim of this paper is to show, contra the right-libertarian critique of social justice, that there are good reasons for defending policies of social justice within a free society. In the first part of the paper, we will present two influential right-libertarian critiques of social justice, found in Friedrich Hayek?s Law, Legislation and Liberty and Robert Nozick?s Anarchy, State and Utopia. Based on their approach, policies of social justice are seen as an unjustified infringement on freedoms of individual members of a society. In response to this critique, we will introduce the distincion between formal and factual freedom and argue that the formal principle of freedom defended by Hayek and Nozick does not suffice for the protection of factual freedom of members of a society, because it does not recognize (1) the moral obligation to help those who, without their fault, lack factual freedom to a significant degree, and (2) the legal obligation of the state to protect civic dignity of all members of a society. In the second part of the paper, we offer an interpretation of Kant?s argument on taxation, according to which civic dignity presupposes factual freedom, in order to argue that Kant?s justification of taxation offers good reasons for claiming that the state has the legal obligation to protect factual freedom via the policies of social justice.

scholarly journals Liberdade, liberalismo e intervenção do estado: perspectivas teóricas de autores modernos

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-380
Author(s):  
Sávia Lorena Barreto Carvalho De Sousa
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Friedrich Hayek

Este ensaio teórico de base analítica visa entender criticamente aspectos do liberalismo e da intervenção do Estado. Com o objetivo central de resgatar questões trabalhadas por autores modernos da Ciência Política a respeito das formas que uma sociedade pode ser mais justa e combater as desigualdades no mundo, o questionamento principal se desdobra em reflexões sobre como conciliar a liberdade com a atuação dos mercados e a respeito dos limites da democracia neste contexto, discutidos em uma problematização de pensadores como Adam Smith, Alex de Tocqueville, Stuart Mill, Max Weber e Karl Marx em diálogo com teóricos mais contemporâneos, como Friedrich Hayek, John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas e Anthony Giddens. Conclui-se a urgência de um processo de fortalecimento dos Parlamentos, com políticas públicas de inclusão social que permitam uma sociedade mais igualitária e uma educação que abra portas para formar um cidadão crítico, que compreenda as diferenças dentro do campo do respeito ao Outro e às liberdades de escolha. A proposta de contínuo aprimoramento das instituições e juízos através de sistemas de consultas, reformas e revisões jurídicas e políticas, é cada vez mais necessária em um mundo de constantes mudanças.

scholarly journals Hayek et sa reconstruction du libéralisme

2011 ◽  
pp. 119-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Dostaler
Keyword(s):  
Il Y A ◽  
Friedrich Hayek

Né il y a exactement cent ans, Friedrich Hayek a joué un rôle majeur dans la reconstruction d’une pensée libérale originale qui s’oppose, en particulier, à l’interventionnisme keynésien. L’article retrace l’itinéraire de cet homme qui, d’abord vaincu par Keynes, a vu ses idées triompher dans les dernières années de sa vie. L’auteur se penche ensuite sur les fondements du libéralisme de Hayek, en évoquant sa conception de la connaissance et sa théorie des ordres spontanés, sur lesquels s’appuie son rejet du socialisme et de la planification. Il examine enfin sa conception de l’État et des rapports entre l’État et l’économie et montre que le libéralisme de Hayek a, dans la mouvance libérale actuelle, souvent qualifiée de néolibérale, des caractéristiques singulières qui le distinguent de plusieurs autres courants.

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