Rules and Choice in Economics

Why Hayek is a Darwinian (after all)? Hayek and Darwin on social evolution

“…Many have stressed how contradictory group selectionism could be from the perspective of supposedly individualist approaches such as Hayek's and Darwin's (see in particular Gray, 1984, pp. 52-53;Vanberg, 1886Vanberg, , 1994Steele, 1987;Hodgson, 1991Hodgson, , 1993Witt, 1993). In these Page 19 of 27 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 19 views, the way that practices and traits are invented and transmitted from one individual to others and then from one group to others is hardly understandable.…”

Competition Policy with Optimally Differentiated Rules Instead of 'Per se Rules vs. Rule of Reason'

“…The problems associated with specific interventions into the market process and, conversely, the advantages of establishing and enforcing (more general) rules for the market ("rule of law") have long been recognized both by Hayek (1973), constitutional economists (e.g. Brennan/Buchanan 1985;Vanberg 1994) and the German Ordoliberals (e.g. Eucken 1952).…”

Towards a political economy of statistics

“…This approach stresses the implementation problem of policies and is different from standard welfare economics which is about the design of efficient policies and simply assumes that a benevolent legislator will introduce the policy. Thus, the normative purpose of the approach of new political economy is to propose rules on the constitutional level which constrain the subsequent policy-making process in a way that the political agents become bound to the will of society as a whole [12,23].…”