Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

Review of Hayek’s Liberalism and Its Origins: His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment, by Christinia Petsoulas

The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
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Volume 5, No. 1 (Spring 2002)

 

Hayek points to the works of Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, and Adam Smith as the primary origins of his social theory of spontaneous order. Christinia Petsoulas critically examines that claim and concludes, not simply that Hayek is too modest in understating the originality of his own thought, but that “a convincing critique of the main tenets of cultural evolution can be provided by the very thinkers whom Hayek cites as intellectual forefathers.”

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Steele, G.R. Hayek’s Liberalism and Its Origins: His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment, by Christinia Petsoulas. The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 5, No. 1 (Spring 2002): 93–95.

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