Mises Daily
Author:
Paul A. Cantor
Stephen D. Cox
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[Preface to Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture ] This book explores the possibility that forms of economic thinking sympathetic to capitalism may be able to illuminate our order” to rethink the issue of literary form. The evolution of language and the growth of cities are good examples of what Hayek means by “spontaneous order” — human