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Jan Willem Lindemans

Jan Willem Lindemans was a visiting scholar in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Articles

Methodological Individualism and Cultural Evolution: Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Approaches to Social Order

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Jan Willem Lindemans

This paper is about the alleged tension between methodological individualism and evolutionary ideas in the work of Friedrich Hayek.

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