Abstract
Unlike most economists, the late F. A. Hayek ventured often into domains other than the strictly economic. As a result, his work encompasses a number of social disciplines. Such intellectual trespassing might well have led to a diffuse and disconnected body of work; but this is a danger Hayek understood and largely avoided. The unifying thread in his work is arguably his vision of society as an evolved system of rules, which he often discussed in terms of the concept of “spontaneous order.”
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Langlois, R.N., Sabooglu, M.M. (2001). Knowledge and Meliorism in the Evolutionary Theory of F. A. Hayek. In: Dopfer, K. (eds) Evolutionary Economics: Program and Scope. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0648-4_7
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