I have recently read Hayek's "Constitution of Liberty" and also the first book of "Law, Legislation and Liberty". One of the major problems I encountered is...
Nic Rabanca
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Sep 12, 2000 6:25 pm
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... Bogdan It sems to me that the main point that Hayek is making in Chapter 15 of COL is that government activities that involve arbitrary discrimination...
Winton Bates
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Sep 13, 2000 4:52 am
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The initial question was whether Hayek ever invoked the generality principle for any specific purpose or whether it was just philosophical hot air (I ...
Todd Zywicki
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Sep 13, 2000 5:04 pm
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... Let me adopt Jacques Barzun's notation of using uppercase letters for BIG CONCEPTS... The important point is DISCRETIONARY POWER. The law of progressive...
Karun Philip
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Sep 13, 2000 7:06 pm
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From Walter Block: Dear Nic: Here is some bibliography critical of Hayek from a right wing, or libertarian or Austrian perspective: Rothbard, Murray N.,...
Greg Ransom
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Sep 13, 2000 7:30 pm
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... administrative agencies combining rulemaking, adjudication, and enforcement in one set of hands. Administrative agencies have great power to discriminate ...
Greg Ransom
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Sep 13, 2000 7:41 pm
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Another analysis of Hayek from a libertarian point of view can be found also in: H.-H. Hoppe, "F. A. Hayek on Government and Social Evolution: a Critique", in:...
Carlo Lottieri
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Sep 13, 2000 8:00 pm
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And four more can be found in: Peter J. Boettke. 1998. “Economic Calculation: The Austrian Contribution to Political Economy,” Advances in Austrian...
Steven Horwitz
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Sep 13, 2000 8:09 pm
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There is also a very good text of Gerard Radnitzky, but I know only the Italian translation (La filosofia politica di Friedrich von Hayek. Una valutazione...
Carlo Lottieri
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Sep 13, 2000 8:24 pm
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My reading of Hayek on progressive income taxation is a bit different from Karun's. Hayek's assertion is that the tax rates applied to income must as a matter...
David Glasner
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Sep 13, 2000 9:02 pm
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Just adding a few words to Karun Philip's account. It was interesting to see the importance that he attributed to fallibilism, a view that is more usually...
Rafe Champion
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Sep 14, 2000 1:23 am
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Unfortunately, it seems there's no an English translation of "La filosofia politica di Hayek", since the editor, Raffaele De Mucci, has written it's a still...
Alberto Mingardi
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Sep 14, 2000 9:25 am
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As Ivo Sarjanovic supposed in private mail sent to me, Radnitzky's "La filosofia politica di Hayek" is the translation of a paper published in the "Journal des...
Carlo Lottieri
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Sep 14, 2000 9:31 am
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Years ago I read a critique of Rawls and Buchanan by Scott Gordon. But I can't remember the cite. Does anyone have that reference? Roger...
FDU
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Sep 14, 2000 8:31 pm
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... This could also be said about taxes in general: as long as the limits of guvernamental action is not strictly determined, the bureaucrats could increase...
Nic Rabanca
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Sep 16, 2000 7:36 pm
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I am still not convinced that Hayek's understanding is as defective as White contends. Let me add a few remarks: First, it should be noted that White's...
Van Den Hauwe
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Sep 17, 2000 6:35 pm
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H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by H-Diplo@... (September, 2000) Arch Puddington. _Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and...
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Sep 19, 2000 3:41 am
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Announcement and Call for Papers Twenty-ninth Annual Hume Society Conference University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland August 6-10, 2002 The Hume Society is...
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Sep 19, 2000 3:59 am
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H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by EH.Net (August, 2000) Rosa-Maria Gelpi and Francois Julien-Labruyee. _The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices_....
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Sep 19, 2000 4:48 am
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Conference -- WISDOM OF THE BODY The Department of Philosophy of the Dominican College is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference. Title: WISDOM OF...
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Sep 21, 2000 1:07 am
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... True, but in a democracy, it will be impossible to raise the flat rate of taxation above a certain amount without great protest from the population. This...
Karun Philip
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Sep 21, 2000 1:07 am
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... Hayek gives both a historical account and a logical account of all his arguments throughout The Constitution of Liberty. He does state the above as well,...
Karun Philip
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Sep 21, 2000 1:09 am
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H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by H-Albion@-net.msu.edu (September, 2000) David Zaret. _Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions and the Public Sphere...
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Sep 21, 2000 1:16 am
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CONSERVATIVEnet is a new daily electronic newsletter for scholars, researchers and advanced students in the areas of conservative and libertarian history and...
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Sep 21, 2000 1:22 am
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Several folks have now argued that Hayek's opposition to progressive income taxation should be viewed as an example of his fear of fallibilism and his praise...
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
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Sep 21, 2000 5:41 pm
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... Why, exactly? What is so special about "democracy" that it is exempt from abuses of power? You do not say. Since *all* governments involve a minority ...
Dan Mahoney
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Sep 21, 2000 6:22 pm
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Barkley, I haven't been able to follow the debate too closely, and I too am puzzled by the claim that progressivity *per se* compromises the rule of law. But ...
FDU
koppl@...
Sep 21, 2000 6:23 pm
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... I am working from memory, but I believe that Hayek was concerned about progressive rates creating different classes of taxpayers. I believe that the...
gordon sollars
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Sep 21, 2000 6:56 pm
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... A few months ago we discussed this issue to some great extent. Suffice it to say that those of us who argued that democracies are different from other ...
Augustus diZerega
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Sep 21, 2000 7:26 pm
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... Nothing. The combination of democracy PLUS the PRINCIPLE of liberalism and limits on what the government ought to do, is what is potentially exempt. But...
