Um palestra de Bruce Caldwell sobre a importância de Hayek (INET Conference @ King’s College, April 8-11, 2010)
I was initially attracted to Hayek not for his politics or his view on markets, but for what he had to say about the limitations of economics. Hayek developed his ideas about the dispersion of knowledge during the socialist calculation debate of the 1930s. His ideas led him to reject, of course, the assumption of perfect information that inhabited most of the models of his day, but also the rationality assumption and even the use of equilibrium theorizing, which is one reason he is so little taught today in the standard economics curriculum. Hayek viewed the economy as a complex adaptive system, and thought that when we confront such a phenomenon, our ability to control it is severely limited. Often the best we can do is to make broad pattern predictions or provide explanations of the principles by which such phenomena behave.
Recomendo a leitura integral.
We are talking about academics here, and of course nothing impresses an academic audience like someone being mostly incomprehensible but occasionally clear, so the end result was that they offered him a job.
Priceless
Comentário por Nuno Branco — Abril 16, 2010 @ 17:41
Bom post. Obrigado.
Comentário por Bob — Abril 16, 2010 @ 19:58
Obrigado também.
Comentário por lucklucky — Abril 16, 2010 @ 20:28