In the 1950s, Jacques Rueff's references to social order seem pretty clear: it is not a spontaneous phenomena. Although Rueff is generally seen as a liberal economist, this has prompted commentators to see in his approach something more artificial than Hayek's own ideas on social order. Hayek...

In the 1950s, Jacques Rueff’s references to social order seem pretty clear: it is not a spontaneous phenomena. Although Rueff is generally seen as a liberal economist, this has prompted commentators to see in his approach something more artificial than Hayek’s own ideas on social order....

Friedrich Hayek devoted the later part of his career to investigating the legal rules required for the existence of a free society. The subject of this paper is Hayek's treatment of legal positivism, which he thought was the most important intellectual movement responsible for the decline of...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Entwicklung im Rechtsdenken vom Formalismus zum "Ökonomismus", das heißt hier der wirtschaftlichen Betrachtungsweise (law & economics), anhand der Konzeptionen Jherings, Hayeks und Posners. Meine These dabei ist, dass ein innerer Zusammenhang zwischen...