Although there was a time when men believed that even language and morals had been ‘invented’ by some genius of the past, everybody recognizes now that they are the outcome of a process of evolution whose results nobody foresaw or designed.
But in other fields many people still treat with suspicion the claim that the patterns of interaction of many men can show an order that is of nobody’s deliberate making; in the economic sphere, in particular, critics still pour uncomprehending ridicule on Adam Smith’s expression of the ‘invisible hand’ by which, in the language of his time, he described how man is led ‘to promote an end which was no part of his intentions’.
If indignant reformers still complain of the chaos of economic affairs, insinuating a complete absence of order, this is partly b... (查看原文)
It is because it was not dependent on organization but grew up as a spontaneous order that the structure of modern society has attained that degree of complexity which it possesses and which far exceeds any that could have been achieved by deliberate organization.
To maintain that we must deliberately plan modern society because it has become so complex is therefore paradoxical, and the result of a complete misunderstanding of these circumstances. The fact is, rather, that we can preserve an order of such complexity not by the method of directing the members, but only indirectly by enforcing and improving the rules conducive to the formation of a spontaneous order. (查看原文)
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feifei
江绪林
平中要
Long Long Ago
诚明
三只耳朵竖起来
0 有用 希仁 2008-06-06 23:36:11
哈耶克是应该读的
0 有用 海底捞尔 2014-03-25 00:28:09
这个版本最好
0 有用 easternsun 2009-12-04 23:54:41
哈耶克对自由主义的向往缺乏对权谋和政治的尊重。
2 有用 人无再少年 2014-02-08 16:37:45
看得头昏眼花，基本上什么也没记住，这样也挺好。因为，我现在是奥黑……
1 有用 黑色柴犬 2024-04-10 17:40:21 浙江
邓正来的序写的真好