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Whenit becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroyitself.
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A democratic assembly voting and amending a comprehensive economic plan clause by clause, as it deliberates on an ordinary bill,makes nonsense.
A variation of "a camel is a horse built by committee"
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the basic fact that it is impos-sible for any man to survey more than a limited field, to be aware of the urgencyof more than a limited number of needs.
What he's getting at is that this in an incredibly complex problem, but he doesn't have any vocabulary of complexity theory given that he's writing in 1944.
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Hayek, F. A. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents, The Definitive Edition. Edited by Bruce Caldwell. 1944. Reprint, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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- Jun 2025
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Eric Zencey wrote that the free market economy Hayek advocated is designed for an infinite planet, and when it runs into physical limits (as any growing system must), the result is a need for centralized planning to mediate the problematic interface of economy and nature. "Planning is planning, whether it's done to minimize poverty and injustice, as socialists were advocating then, or to preserve the minimum flow of ecosystem services that civilization requires, as we are finding increasingly necessary today."[70]
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Since publication, Hayek has offered a number of clarifications on words that are frequently misinterpreted: "Socialism", as Hayek used it, refers to state socialism and is used to mean state control of the economy, not a welfare state[39] "Classical liberal ideals", means liberty, freedom and individual rights, as Hayek understood them[40]
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80 Years Later, Are We Still on ‘The Road to Serfdom’? by [[Rainer Zitelman]]
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It’s clear how relevant Hayek’s warnings remain today. Economic freedom—unlike in the 1980s and ’90s—is in retreat. Faith in “industrial policy” has come to dominate in China, the U.S. and Europe. At the same time, intellectual freedom is under threat as proponents of a woke ideology strive to politicize all of life. Mathematics is now considered “racist” by some, while freedom of speech is under threat. Opponents of economic freedom often oppose intellectual freedom as well.
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In 1971, Hayek emphasized that the primary focus of his book was classical socialism, which aimed to nationalize the means of production.
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Hayek’s book presents a second important thesis: The loss of economic freedom precedes the loss of intellectual and political freedom.
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My first "rectangle annotation"! These apparently only appear in as an option on .pdf books?
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- Jan 2025
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Ein von 1000 Wissenschaftler:innen unterzeichnetes Papier, das sich für den Konsum vom Fleisch ausspricht, ist das Ergebnis einer PR- und Lobbying-Aktion der Fleischindustrie. Es diente der Beeinflussung der EU-Kommission. Der EU-Agrarkommissar übernahm die Argumentation. Offenbar ist es mit Hilfe der sogenannten Dublin Declaration, die von Fachleuten als wenig qualitätvoll beurteilt wird, gelungen, die EU-Kommission von ihrer ursprünglichen Absicht, Einschränkungen bei der Fleisch- und Milchproduktion zu vertreten, abzubringen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/27/revealed-industry-figures-declaration-scientists-backing-meat-eating
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- Oct 2024
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20 Fachleute und 78 Umweltgruppen haben dagegen protestiert, dass die Welternährungsorganisation FAO einen Bericht nicht korrigiert hat, in dem die Bedeutung der Viehzucht als Quelle von Treibhausgas-Emissionen und damit die Notwendigkeit, die Essgewohnheiten zu verändern, nicht korrekt dargestellt werden. Die Fehlinformationen sind schon länger bekannt, Die FAO hat aber auf die Kritik trotz gegenteiliger Versprechungen nicht reagiert. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/30/scientists-criticise-un-agency-fao-failure-to-withdraw-livestock-emissions-report
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Staaten, die von der Viehwirtschaft abhängig sind, haben über Jahre großen Druck auf die FAO ausgeübt, Forschungsergebnisse zu den Methanemissionen durch Vieh zurückzuhalten. Wichtige Berichte wurden nicht publiziert. Wahrscheinlich wurde auch das volle Ausmaß der Treibhausgasemissionen durch die Viehzucht bewusst nicht dargestellt. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/ex-officials-at-un-farming-fao-say-work-on-methane-emissions-was-censored
Livestock's Long Shadow: https://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e.pdf
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- report: Livestock’s Long Shadow (LLS)
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Cross reference Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Society
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Hayek, Friedrich A. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” The American Economic Review 35, no. 4 (1945): 519–30.
See also, notes at abbreviated version in Information: A Reader (2021). (@Shannon2021)
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Instead, he lauds the figure of themarket as a knowing entity, envisioning it as a kind of processor of socialinformation that, through the mechanism of price, continuously calcu-lates and communicates current economic conditions to individuals inthe market.
Is it possible that in this paper we'll see the beginning of a shift from Adam Smith's "invisible hand" (of Divine Providence, or God) to a somewhat more scientifically based mechanism based on information theory?
Could communication described here be similar to that of a fungal colony seeking out food across gradients? It's based in statistical mechanics of exploring a space, but looks like divine providence or even magic to those lacking the mechanism?
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This idealized vision would go on to rebrand economics asa form of information studies, eventually garnering Hayek a Nobel Prizein Economics in 1974.
Note that Hayek writes this in 1945, 11 years before Shannon would write "The Bandwagon" (IEEE, 1956).
It's also written at a time when economics as a field was still trying to legitimize itself, along with other humanities, as a "scientific" field.
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FRIEDRICH HAYEK, FROM “THE USE OFKNOWLEDGE IN SOCIETY” (1945)
Hayek, Friedrich A. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” In Information: A Reader, edited by Eric Hayot, Lea Pao, and Anatoly Detwyler. 1945. Reprint, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7312/hayo18620.
This paper was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in The American Economic Review during its first 100 years. In this paper Hayek poses the fundamental question of the nature of the economic system. He is especially concerned in its role in dealing with resource allocation when knowledge is distributed in small bits among a large population. —Fermats Library editors (email) https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-use-of-knowledge-in-society
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- Jul 2022
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Hayek's political influence reached its height in 1986, when Mrs Thatcher's government swept away much of the regulation that had constrained the city of London
Direct link to Thatcher
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To Hayek, the market does most good when it's most free
Hayek on the market
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Hayek makes a moral argument that government's attempts to control the economy enslave its people.
Philip Booth: When we give more and more power to the state, gradually there is an erosion of, first, economic freedom
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Hayek worried they would never let go
Once the government has control of the economy, will they ever let go?
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- Jan 2021
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more positive-sounding term spontaneous order than the more mystical-sounding invisible hand. Others, however, prefer to use another term. ‘I prefer the term “unintended order” to the more familiar “spontaneous order” because the former conveys that the system of order was not anyone’s intentional design without suggesting, as “spontaneous” might, that there is no way to account for the creation of the system’ (Otteson 2002, 6; see also Otteson 2007, 21).
The importance of accountability is implied by introducing the term - "unintended order".
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Hayek is thus informing us that the framework of our analysis should include institutions that are ‘The results of Human Action but not of Human Design’.
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Hayek notes that if we confine our arguments to the natural and artificial realms confusion is bound to ensure: ‘... one would describe a social institution as “natural” because it had never been deliberately designed, while another would describe the same institution as “artificial” because it resulted from human action’ (Hayek 1967, 130)
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This brings me to the crucial issue. Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones. While in the physical sciences it is generally assumed, probably with good reason, that any important factor which determines the observed events will itself be directly observable and measurable, in the study of such complex phenomena as the market, which depend on the actions of many individuals, all the circumstances which will determine the outcome of a process, for reasons which I shall explain later, will hardly ever be fully known or measurable. And while in the physical sciences the investigator will be able to measure what, on the basis of a prima facie theory, he thinks important, in the social sciences often that is treated as important which happens to be accessible to measurement. This is sometimes carried to the point where it is demanded that our theories must be formulated in such terms that they refer only to measurable magnitudes.
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The particular occasion of this lecture, combined with the chief practical problem which economists have to face today, have made the choice of its topic almost inevitable. On the one hand the still recent establishment of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science marks a significant step in the process by which, in the opinion of the general public, economics has been conceded some of the dignity and prestige of the physical sciences. On the other hand, the economists are at this moment called upon to say how to extricate the free world from the serious threat of accelerating inflation which, it must be admitted, has been brought about by policies which the majority of economists recommended and even urged governments to pursue. We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
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It seems to me that this failure of the economists to guide policy more successfully is closely connected with their propensity to imitate as closely as possible the procedures of the brilliantly successful physical sciences – an attempt which in our field may lead to outright error. It is an approach which has come to be described as the “scientistic” attitude – an attitude which, as I defined it some thirty years ago, “is decidedly unscientific in the true sense of the word, since it involves a mechanical and uncritical application of habits of thought to fields different from those in which they have been formed.”1
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