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Hayek Deserves a New Paradigm, Not Old Ideological Categories: Response to Searles

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  • David Sloan Wilson
  • Robert Kadar
  • Steve Roth

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Like Harrison Searles, we’re confident that modern evolutionary science provides a useful toolkit for economics and public policy. Some progress has been made advancing a new paradigm. Searles rightfully calls attention to the pioneering work of Friedrich Hayek. We are in a much better position to approach these topics now than during Hayek’s time. We think that modern multilevel selection theory and complexity theory lead to conclusions different than those that Searles and others draw from Hayek’s work. But we suggest dropping terms such as “evolutionary left” as a first step toward acknowledging that new paradigms cannot be shoehorned into old ideological categories. In our view, the new evolutionary paradigms promise to transcend the old ideological categories.

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  • David Sloan Wilson & Robert Kadar & Steve Roth, 2015. "Hayek Deserves a New Paradigm, Not Old Ideological Categories: Response to Searles," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 12(2), pages 137–141-1, May.
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    1. David Wilson & John Gowdy, 2015. "Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 37-52, April.
    2. Harrison Searles, 2015. "The Welfare State and Moral Sentiments: A Smith-Hayek Critique of the Evolutionary Left," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 12(2), pages 114–136-1, May.
    3. Wilson, David Sloan & Gowdy, John M., 2013. "Evolution as a general theoretical framework for economics and public policy," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 90(S), pages 3-10.
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    Evolution; multilevel selection;

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    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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