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THE OVERRATED REASON

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2013

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References

1 Compare A. O. Hirschman, “The Passions and the Interests” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977).

2 Compare V. G. Childe, “Man Makes Himself,” London, 1936.

3 David Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature, edited by T. H. Green and T. H. Grose. Two volumes. (London [1739] 1890), vol. II, p. 258.

4 Ibid., vol. II, p. 274.

5 Compare F. A. v. Hayek, “The Legal and Political Philosophy of David Hume.” In F. A. v. Hayek, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Eonomics (London, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967), pp. 10–121.

6 David Hume, The Natural History of Religion and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, edited by A. Wayne Culver and J. V. Price (London: Oxford University Press, [1876] 1976), pp. 212, 221.

7 K. Haakonsen, The Science of a Legislator (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), p. 24.

8 Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature, vol. 2, p. 235.

9 Compare D. Baumgart, Bentham and the Ethics of Today (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956), p. 357; C. W. Everett, The Education of Jeremy Bentham (Columbia: Columbia University Press, 1931), p. 110.

10 S. N. Patten, The Development of English Thought (New York: Macmillan, 1899), p. XXIII.

11 C. Menger, Investigations into the Methods of the Social Sciences (New York: New York University, 1985). Also compare his earlier usage of the expression “genetic” in his paradigmatic explanation of the origins of money.

12 F. A. Hayek, “Dr.Bernard Mandeville.” In F. A.Hayek, Freiburger Studien. Gesammelte Aufsätze (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck],1969), p. 128.

13 Simon (1980). Also see the conference report for the meeting of the German Natural Scientists and Physicians, to which he refers. [Reference could not be reconstructed, compare footnote on first page, the publisher.]

14 Huxley,(1947, p. 23). [Reference could not be reconstructed, compare footnote on page one.]

15 R. L. Heilbronner, Between Capitalism and Socialism (New York: Random House, 1970), p. 106.

16 F. A. Hayek, “Law, Legislation and Liberty.” In Rules and Order, vol. 1 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), p. 23.

17 H. F. Blum, Time’s Arrow and Evolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951).

18 F. A. Hayek, The Sensory Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952), 5.1–5.49.

19 W. B. Cannon, The Wisdom of the Body (London: Kegan Paul), 1932.

20 L. v. Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory, Foundation, Development, Application (New York: Braziller, 1968); and L. v. Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971).

21 J. J. Rousseau, Social Contract (1762, I, VII); K. R. Popper. The Poverty of Historicism (London: (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1944–45). German Translation: Das Elend des Historizismus (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr/Paul Siebeck, 1982).

22 T. T. Segerstedt, “Wandel und Gesellschaft,” Bild der Wissenschaft 6 (1969): 5.

23 B. F. Skinner, “Freedom and the Control of Men,” The American Scholar 26 (1955–56): 49.

24 J. L. Simons, The Economics of Population Growth (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977); J. L. Simons, The Ultimate Resource (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).