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The Sensory Order

In: The Economics of Friedrich Hayek

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  • G. R. Steele

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Hayek contemporaneously described The Sensory Order as ‘the most important thing I have yet done’ (letter to John Nef, dated 6 November 1948, cited from Caldwell, 1997b, p. 1856) and retrospectively regarded it as ‘one of his more important contributions to knowledge’ (Hayek, 1994, p. 138). In terms of intellectual fulfillment, he commented that ‘the insights I gained … both from the first stage in 1920 or later in the 1940s, were probably the most exciting events that ever occurred to me, and which shaped my thinking’ (Hayek, 1994, p. 153). In which case, there must have been considerable disappointment — even perplexity — when, towards the end of his life, he believed that nobody understood it (Harris, 1992, p. 20).

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  • G. R. Steele, 2007. "The Sensory Order," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Economics of Friedrich Hayek, edition 0, chapter 2, pages 27-42, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-80148-6_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230801486_2
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