[lbo-talk] socialist response to hayek

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 08:22:49 PDT 2009


Joshua wrote:


> Can anyone direct me to a good single volume, or at least relatively short
> and accessible, socialist (state or anarchist) response to or critique of
> Hayek?
>

I don't think there is one. Which tells you something.

Theodore Burczak wrote a book outlining a Hayekian socialism that would supposedly meet with FH's approval. (There was even a symposium on it in the Review of Austrian Economics.) And James C. Scott, a distinguished anarchist anthropologist, wrote a book that is basically a Hayekian critique of social engineering, Seeing Like A State, which is on every grad school reading list in the social sciences and history. Scott acknowledges that his critique converges with Hayek's but claims his is really different; it's hard to see how, though.

But these are responses to Hayek that respond to him by accepting his ideas. It sounds like you're looking for a refutation. I don't think anyone has attempted one with any seriousness.

SA



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