This second volume, Basics of a Liberal Psychological, Social and Moral Order, overviews developments in the theory of spontaneously ordered complex phenomena, the psychology of inference and expectation, the nature of anticipatory systems in the psychological and economic domains, and the evolution of scientific thought and knowledge.
Walter B. Weimer is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University. He was instrumental in bringing Hayek’s philosophical psychology both to a psychology audience and to an economics audience.
Chapter 1. Problems of complexity and explanation in the social sciences.- Chapter 2. The essential evolutionary tension: cosmos + taxis.- Chapter 3. Inference and expectation.- Chapter 4. Markets and morals.- Chapter 5. Alienation, malaise, and the abstract society.- Chapter 6. Education in a free society.- Chapter 7. Constructivism within the liberal tradition.- Chapter 8. Classical liberalism has yet to be either achieved, refuted, or improved.