The open society and its complexities /
"A mere two decades ago it was widely assumed that liberal democracy and the Open Society had decisively won their century-long struggle against authoritarianism. Although subsequent events have shocked many, F. A. Hayek would not have been surprised that people are in many ways disoriented by...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Philosophy, politics, and economics.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Prolegomenon : Hayek's three unsettling theses
- Beyond human nature
- Beyond moral justification
- Beyond human governance
- Three enquiries on the open society
- The rise of a normative species
- A natural history of moral order
- The "starting point"
- The egalitarian revolution
- Self-interest, reciprocity and altruism
- Internalized, enforced, social rules
- The other side of morality
- Cultural evolution
- Part I : the rise and (partial) fall of inequality
- A complex moral species
- The diversity and self-organized complexity
- Liberalism and the open society
- Understanding diversity
- Autocatalytic diversity
- Diversity and complexity
- Too much complexity?
- The morality of self-organization
- The social contract
- A self-organization model
- Moral diversity In the open society
- Part II: the complexities of self-governance
- Self-governance
- Macro control
- Macro structure
- Strategic dilemmas and polycentricity
- Meso-level goal pursuit
- Sectoral policy
- Self-governance from the bottom-up : simplifying the problems of governance
- Our moral nature and governance in the open society
- Liberal democracy
- Epilogue
- Appendix A
- Appendix B.