Knowledge and Coordination : a Liberal Interpretation.

Too often in economics the understanding of how things work by and large--not axiomatically or categorically--and the idea that we generally cannot know the economic system well enough to intervene into it beneficially are done less than justice. Yet they were Adam Smith's central messages for...

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Main Author: Klein, Daniel B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Some Smith-Hayek Homiletics; 1. Rinkonomics: A Window on Spontaneous Order; 2. Discovery Factors of Economic Freedom; About This Book; 3. From a Raft in the Currents of Liberal Economics; The Two Coordinations; 4. Concatenate Coordination and Mutual Coordination; 5. Joy and the Matrix of Concatenate and Mutual; 6. Light Shed by the Two Coordinations; Asymmetric Interpretation; 7. Discovery and the Deepself; 8. Experiment on Entrepreneurial Discovery; 9. Let's Be Pluralist on Entrepreneurship.
  • 10. Knowledge Flat-talk: A Conceit of Supposed Experts and a Seduction to AllStudies in Spontaneous Order; 11. Urban Transit: Planning and the Two Coordinations; 12. The Integrity of You and Your Trading Partners: The Demand for and Supply of Assurance; 13. Outstripped by Unknowns: Intervention and the Pace of Technology; Rethinking Our Way; 14. Unfolding the Allegory behind Market Communication and Social Error and Correction; 15. Conclusion: Liberalism These Past 250 Years; Appendix.
  • 16. Owning Up to and Properly Locating Our Looseness: A Critique of Israel Kirzner on Coordination and Discovery17. Some Fragments; 18. In Defense of Dwelling in Great Minds: A Few Quotations from Michael Polanyi's The Study of Man; Glossary; A; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; P; R; S; T; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.