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106:." This is because man "knows so many objects that seem desirable but for which he is not permitted to grasp, and he cannot see how other beneficial features of his environment depend on the discipline to which he is forced to submit – a discipline forbidding him to reach out for these same appealing objects. Disliking these constraints so much, we can hardly be said to have selected them; rather, these constraints selected us: they enabled us to survive." 110:
continues: "Protection of several property, not the direction of its use by government, laid the foundations for the growth of the dense network of exchange of services that shaped the extended order." The extended order is "not a creation of man's reason but a distinct second endowment conferred on him by cultural evolution."
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from human design or intention but spontaneously: it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional & largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly
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According to Hayek, the adoption of these practices by these groups, "increased their access to valuable information of all sorts, & enabled them to be 'fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it' (Genesis 1:28). This process is perhaps the least appreciated facet of human
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Hayek says that the evolutionary process of the extended order can be stimulated by increases in individual freedom and has even realized some of its greatest advances during times of anarchy, however it can (and quite often has throughout history) been hindered by government constraint. He
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Hayek posits that, since it is not genetically transferred, the continuing cultural evolution of the extended order requires teaching and passing on to each new generation the prevailing traditions, customs, morality and rules. This cultural evolutionary requirement was also analyzed by
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Hayek argues that the extended order's formation "required individuals to change their 'natural' or instinctual' responses to others, something strongly resisted", whereas any and all "constraints on the practices of the small group, it must be emphasized & repeated, are
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agency, let alone any individual, could know as a whole, possess or control." The result is an interconnected web where people can benefit from the actions and knowledge of those they don't know. This is possible and efficient, in Hayek's view, because a proper
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who said: "Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again."
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Hayek argues that the extended order "is a framework of institutions – economic, legal, and moral – into which we fit ourselves by obeying certain rules of conduct that
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rapidly spread by means of an evolutionary selection – the comparative increase in population & wealth – of those groups that happened to follow them."
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in the sense of which we understand how the things that we manufacture function." This "order resulted
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Hayek, F.A. "The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism". The University of Chicago Press. 1991.
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Index

economics
sociology
Friedrich Hayek
The Fatal Conceit
specialization
trade
dispersed information
central planning
legal
trust
capitalism
Will
Ariel Durant
Catallactics
Free Market
Spontaneous order










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