All Posts Tagged With: "constructivism"
Where There’s a Will There’s a Way?
Many aphorisms and common expressions take on a different meaning when seen through the lens of economics.
18Mar2010 | Steven Horwitz | 6 comments | ContinuedThe Trouble with Teacher Training
This is an article about an absurd state of affairs in the field of education, but I’d like to begin with a little thought experiment having nothing directly to do with education. Imagine two countries-Freedonia and Ruloveria-whose inhabitants like music. However, the two follow entirely different methods of training the musicians who play in their [...]
1Nov2001 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | ContinuedHuman Ignorance and Social Engineering
Throughout most of intellectual history, society has been considered to be the result of someone’s design. In his multi-volume Law, Legislation, and Liberty, the social theorist F. A. Hayek referred to this position as “constructivist rationalism” and argued vigorously against it. In his 1974 Nobel Memorial Lecture, titled “The Pretence of Knowledge,” Hayek expressed a [...]
1May1998 | Wendy McElroy | 7 comments | Continued-
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