Knowledge and Coordination A Liberal Interpretation

Name: Knowledge and Coordination A Liberal Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780199794126

ISBN-10: 019979412X

ISBN-13: 9780199794126

Edition: 2011

Authors: Daniel B. Klein

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Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek saw the liberty principle as focal and accorded it strong presumption. But their wisdom invokes how little we can know. InKnowledge and Coordination, Daniel Klein re-examines the elements of economic liberalism. He interprets Hayek's notion of spontaneous order from the aestheticized perspective of a Smithian spectator, real or imagined. Klein addresses issues economists have had surrounding the notion of coordination by distinguishing the concatenate coordination of Hayek, Ronald Coase, and Michael Polanyi from the mutual coordination of Thomas Schelling and game theory. Clarifying the meaning ofcooperation, he resolves debates over whether entrepreneurial…

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List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.42" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.474

Daniel B. Klein is Associate Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University. He is co-author of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit and editor of Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct and What Do Economists Contribute?, available from NYU Press.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Some Smith-Hayek Homiletics



Rinkonomics: A Window on Spontaneous Order



Discovery Factors of Economic Freedom


About This Book



From a Raft in the Currents of Liberal Economics


The Two Coordinations



Concatenate Coordination and Mutual Coordination



Joy and the Matrix of Concatenate and Mutual



Light Shed by the Two Coordinations


Asymmetric Interpretation



Discovery and the Deepself



Experiment on Entrepreneurial Discovery



Let's Be Pluralist on Entrepreneurship



Knowledge Flat-talk: A Conceit of Supposed Experts and a Seduction to All


Studies in Spontaneous Order



Urban Transit: Planning and the Two Coordinations



The Integrity of You and Your Trading Partners: The Demand for and Supply of Assurance



Outstripped by Unknowns: Intervention and the Pace of Technology


Rethinking Our Way



Unfolding the Allegory behind Market Communication and Social Error and Correction



Conclusion: Liberalism These Past 250 Years


Appendix



Owning Up to and Properly Locating Our Looseness: A Critique of Israel Kirzner on Coordination and Discovery



Some Fragments



In Defense of Dwelling in Great Minds: A Few Quotations from Michael Polanyi's The Study of Man


Glossary


References


Index