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Hayek and Popper on ignorance and intervention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2007

CELIA LESSA KERSTENETZKY
CELIA LESSA KERSTENETZKY*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Fluminense
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*Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rua Tiradentes, 17, Niterói, Brazil. Email: celiakersten@gmail.com.
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Abstract:

Does limited social knowledge inhibit government intervention or, conversely, demand it? This article confronts these two positions, as they are respectively advocated by Hayek and Popper, and sets out to substantiate the belief that Popper's view is the more coherent one.

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Research Article
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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 2007 , pp. 33 - 53
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Copyright © The JOIE Foundation 2006

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