Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
Jan Willem Lindemans
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Volume 15, No. 3 (Fall 2012) This paper is about the alleged tension between methodological individualism and evolutionary ideas in the work of Friedrich Hayek. This issue is much debated, but I focus my attention on a quite original incompatibility argument by Geoffrey Hodgson. Hodgson sympathizes with the evolutionary Hayek, arguing that Hayek’s