Gesellschaft und Recht bei David Hume und Friedrich A. von Hayek – Über die Zivilisierung des Egoismus durch Recht und Wettbewerb / David Hume’s and Friedrich A. von Hayek’s Theory of Society and Law. Law and Competition as Civilizers of Self Interest

Mestmäcker Ernst-Joachim

ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2009, vol. 60, issue 1, 87-100

Abstract: The rationality of decentral orders and their governing principles inform the institutions that are necessary conditions of free societies. These institutions are: Rules of just conduct in civil society; the division of labour as a product of freedom of occupation and freedom of contract; competition. These institutions are the result of human action but not of human design (Von Hayek, Ferguson). They are not a product of chance but of experience permitting insight into principles that are compatible with free and just societies.

Date: 2009
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