F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics : The Curious Task of Economics (Hardcover)

Part One: Hayekian Epistemology 1: Hayek, not Mises, at the Head of the Austrian School 2: Hayek’s Non-Standard Conception of Knowledge Part Two: Philosophy, Politics, and Business-Cycle Theory: versus Scientistic Policymaking 3: Slaves of the Defunct: The Epistemic Intractability of the Hayek-Keynes Debate 4: Lesser Degrees of Explanation 5: Hayek’s Epistemic Theory of Industrial Fluctuations 6: A Hayekian Explanation of Hayek’s ‘Epistemic Turn’ Part Three: Hayekian Philosophy of Science: versus Politicized Science 7: Hayek and the Philosophers of Science 8: Kinds of Scientific Rationalism: The Case for Methodological Liberalism 9: How Politicized Science and Scientistic Policymaking Contributed to the Obesity Epidemic: A Case Study at the Confluence of Science and Politics Part Four: Politics as a Knowledge Problem: A New Research Program in Hayekian Political Epistemology 10: The Argument from Ignorance and its Implications for Policymaking 11: Political Ignorance and Political Corruption: The Logical Priority of Epistemological over Ethical Concerns 12: Hayekian Political Epistemology: A First Pass