The Foundations of a Liberal International Order
The Foundations of a Liberal International Order

Author(s): Alan G. Futerman
Subject(s): Economy, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Economic policy
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: liberal international order; spontaneous order; Rule of Law; right of secession;
Summary/Abstract: As Friedrich Hayek has taught, social sciences are counterintuitive. How so? According to Adam Smith (1776 [1904]), the economy operates as if an invisible hand would be ordering it. But there is no such hand in reality. Intuition, following Hayek, would deceive us into believing that there is a hand operating somewhere. However, to recognize that there is not involves two (perhaps, disturbing) facts: we cannot control what we do not understand, and to learn what it is that which we do not understand is hard.

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