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An Anaytical Core for Sociology: A Complex, Hayekian Analysis

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This paper elaborates on a feature of Gintis and Helbing’s “nalytical core for sociology†that they mention but do not discuss in detail, namely its portrayal of the economy as a complex adaptive system. The Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek’s work on complex systems is used as a point of comparison to highlight certain important features of Gintis and Helbing’s approach, in particular: its (non-reductionist) emphasis on the importance of emergent properties for explaining the working of the mind and the market; the role of evolutionary development through group selection; and the importance of motivations stemming from so-called “social preferences†. Other, potentially important implications of a complex systems perspective to which Gintis and Helbing arguably do not do justice, concerning in particular the possibility and implications of radical uncertainty and the suitability of the notion of general equilibrium for conceptualizing the order exhibited by complex systems, are also considered.

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  • Lewis, Paul, 2015. "An Anaytical Core for Sociology: A Complex, Hayekian Analysis," Review of Behavioral Economics, now publishers, vol. 2(1-2), pages 123-146, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jnlrbe:105.00000023
    DOI: 10.1561/105.00000023
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    1. Paul Lewis, 2017. "The Ostroms and Hayek as Theorists of Complex Adaptive Systems: Commonality and Complementarity," Advances in Austrian Economics, in: The Austrian and Bloomington Schools of Political Economy, volume 22, pages 35-66, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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