F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics : The Curious Task of Economics.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I The problem of policymaker ignorance -- 1 Policymaker ignorance: the first problem of politics and political inquiry -- Some terminological clarifications -- The logically ancillary nature of the problem of policymaker incentives -- The logical priority of the epistemic -- A taxonomy of ignorant policymakers -- Reflection and foreshadow -- 2 Beyond the socialist oasis: Hayek's extensions of Mises' calculation argument -- The insurmountable epistemic burden of the administrator of a pure and isolated socialist oasis -- Hayek's epistemology - a first pass -- The epistemic burdens of socialist administrators in other contexts -- The epistemic burdens of countercyclical economic policymaking and Keynesian demand management -- The generality of the reasoning underlying the Austrians' political-epistemological approach -- Reflection and foreshadow -- 3 Liberalism and the problem of policymaker ignorance -- The epistemic burdens of realizing an effective liberal order: the problem of the epistemic requirements of liberal transitions -- The epistemic burden of policymaking within liberal environments -- The epistemic burden of policy inaction -- Reflection and foreshadow -- PART II Hayekian political epistemology -- 4 The epistemological aspects of Hayekian political epistemology -- Hayek versus Mises on matters epistemological, part one -- Hayek as theoretical psychologist and epistemological naturalist -- Reflection and foreshadow -- 5 Political order and disorder as epistemic phenomena -- Knowledge, planning, social order, and epistemic mechanisms -- Further epistemic requirements of social order -- How prices tell you what to do -- How reputation signals tell scientists (and others) what to do.

Political order and disorder -- Reflection and foreshadow -- 6 Hayekian political epistemology as a science of the limits of deliberate political action -- Hayek versus Keynes yet again -- A constitutional approach to the problem of policymaker ignorance -- Functional omniscience and omnipotence -- Reflection -- Reflection and foreshadow: what the argument is and what the argument is not -- Bibliography -- Index.

F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics is an exploration of a problem that has largely been ignored: the problem of policymaker ignorance, and the limits of political epistemology. Scott Scheall explores Hayek's attitude to the philosophy of science and political philosophy.

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