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The Spontaneous Order of Politics

ISBN: 978-1-78756-578-4, eISBN: 978-1-78756-577-7

Publication date: 3 December 2018

Abstract

Traditional public choice analysis implicitly views political outcomes as the intention of a single-minded person. This view is seriously misguided. Rather than viewing politics as being done by one person or a group of persons acting in concert, this chapter presents an Austrian economist’s thoughts on what an Austrian theory of public choice would look like. Particular attention is paid to the emergent, rather than additive, quality that political outcomes exhibit.

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Acknowledgments

I wish to thank participants at the 2017 Wirth Conference for their insightful comments and feedback. I would like to give special thanks to Richard Ebeling, Steve Horwitz, Peter Lewin, and Jennifer Dirmeyer for their especially detailed comments, suggestions, and discussion as well as two anonymous referees for their highly valuable and well-taken suggestions. All remaining errors are my own.

Citation

Hebert, D.J. (2018), "The Spontaneous Order of Politics", Horwitz, S. (Ed.) Austrian Economics: The Next Generation (Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 23), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-213420180000023010

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Emerald Publishing Limited