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F.A. Hayek is known for making a number of important contributions to economics and social thought. If, however, one had to identify a single concept that captures the thrust of Hayek’s intellectual project, one would probably have to say “spontaneous order.” The intellectual history of spontaneous order has largely been written according to one standard account. That account is, in a nutshell, as follows: The first major theorists of spontaneous order were the Scottish Enlightenment philosophers of the eighteenth century, especially Hume and Smith.

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics by George Reisman
Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 1996

     An important argument in the arsenal of Keynesian economics in favor of fiscal stimulus is that during a recession/depression it will put unemployed resources back to work and produce, in the process, a net-gain in wealth.

Alan Sweezy’s  review of the Collected Works of Menger.

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