Law, legislation and liberty
a new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy
by Friedrich A. von Hayek · first published 1973
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Argues that social order emerges from spontaneous institutions rather than central design, and that rules and liberty should be understood this way. Recommended for readers wanting Hayek's political thought.
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…illusion. I'm doing a pretty poor job of explaining all this. Hayek's Social or 'Distributive' Justice does a much more convincing, thorough and erudite job. It was published in the second volume of Law, Legislation and Liberty, also in The Essence of Hayek. edit: by the way, your blog about LedgerSMB and PostgreSQL is bloody marvellous.
on “Are coders worth it?” ↗• Friedrich Hayek - Law, Legislation and Liberty (1973) • Gerhard Buchwald - Vaccination - A Business Based on Fear (1994)
on “Ask HN: What Books Do You Recommend Reading for 2022?” ↗Science is about knowledge and not about serving the purpose of some people who define "progress" for some political or economic reasons, .. or because they want attention. I wished everyone would read "Law, Legislation & Liberty" by Hayek, where he criticizes people who think systems, like economy, work like an organization. That is, that one can through rational planning and arrangement achieve
on “Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?” ↗Downvoters: this is a nice nutshell statement of a thoroughly respectable thesis, relevant to the thread. I like Hayek's Law, Legislation, and Liberty for a long version, if you don't understand how it can possibly be reasonable.
on “Former University of Iowa hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years” ↗…at the table. Hayek, in particular, was a true polymath, contributing brilliant ideas to everything from philosophy of science to biologically-grounded psychology. Read the first several chapters of Law, Legislation, and Liberty, and decide for yourself if Krugman has any right to sneer at the "supposedly deep Austrian theorists".
on “The Hangover Theory” ↗…defined by and imposed by a society. (the sanctions will generally be different from what the state could impose) For the amount of love Hayek gets in these circles, I'm surprised there isn't more focus on Law, Legislation and Liberty
on “Google's Paris HQ raided in tax probe” ↗…and virtue, and that no market system rewards them in lockstep. And that no such system can function if you try to force it to reward them in lockstep. [0] Either as a chapter in the second volume of Law, Legislation and Liberty or as a standalone essay in The Essence of Hayek.
on “I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation” ↗…much democracy) was certainly a kind of planning. He's like the whiteboard in "Office Space" that says "Planning to Plan" except it says "Planning to not Plan" and it's three books and 700 pages long ("Law, Legislation and Liberty").
on “Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain” ↗…discretion is totally a thing. When’s 16 year old gets prosecuted for sexting as a producer of child porn that’s monstrous whether the law as written calls for it or not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law,_Legislation_and_Liberty
on “Catalan referendum: Voting begins amid police crackdown” ↗