Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Guinevere Liberty Nell

      Pages 1-4

3. Surpassing Methodological Individualism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Methodological Individualism and Society: Hayek’s Evolving View

      • Andy Denis

      Pages 7-20

   3. From Methodological Individualism To Emergence, Ecology, And The Fluid Self: Exploring The Shift From Misesian To Hayekian Social Science

      • Gus Dizerega

      Pages 21-44

4. Spontaneous Order And Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Spontaneous Order and The Social Individual: Hayek, Democracy, and Public Choice

      • Guinevere Liberty Nell

      Pages 47-79

   3. On the Varieties of Spontaneous Orders: From Cultures to Civil Societies and the Orders in Between

      • Troy Camplin

      Pages 81-104

5. Further Implications For Mind And Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. A Danse Macabre of Wants and Satisfactions: Hayek, Oakeshott, Liberty, and Cognition

      • Corey Abel, Leslie Marsh

      Pages 107-140

   3. The Internal and the External Freedoms: How Hayek’s Ideas On Mind And Society Can Help Achieve Marx’s Utopian Dreams

      • Guinevere Liberty Nell

      Pages 141-171

6. Back Matter

   Pages 173-186

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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.

• Austrian economics
• culture
• methodological individualism
• economic policy
• market socialism
• institutional economics
• spontaneous order
• evolutionary economics
• free markets
• Hayek
• Mises
• democracy
• ecology
• economics
• Institution
• Passing
• public choice
• socialism

Corey Abel, Independent, USA Troy Camplin, Camplin Creative Consulting, USA Andy Denis, City University London, UK Gus diZerega, Independent, USA Leslie Marsh, University of British Columbia, Canada

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