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Planning Against Planning: Friedrich Hayek's Utopian Vision of The Good Society

Kuipers, Nicholas
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1399985965

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2014, BA, Oberlin College, Politics.
Against the conventional wisdom, I will argue in this paper that Hayek's political philosophy contains a utopian vision of the good society. By adopting and building on Isaiah Berlin's conception of utopia as a state of static perfection, I will argue that such a vision is implied, if not overtly stated, in Hayek's work. First, Hayek's view that there ought to be a relentless application of an unfettered market mechanism brings about, as he would have it, a static and perfect outcome by whittling away inefficient alternatives to yield a perfectly efficient outcome. In applying an unfettered market mechanism to (a) the evolution of the rules of just conduct and (b) the allocation of public goods, Hayek implies a developmental inevitability characterized by static perfection. Second, I will argue that his sketches of the proper contours of government demonstrate a conventionally utopian vision for the good society and manifest his conception of utopia.
Jade Schiff (Advisor)
Harlan Wilson (Advisor)
37 p.
Political Science
Hayek; Friedrich Hayek; utopia; utopianism; utopian thought; neoliberalism

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  • Kuipers, N. (2014). Planning Against Planning: Friedrich Hayek's Utopian Vision of The Good Society [Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1399985965

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kuipers, Nicholas. Planning Against Planning: Friedrich Hayek's Utopian Vision of The Good Society . 2014. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1399985965.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kuipers, Nicholas. "Planning Against Planning: Friedrich Hayek's Utopian Vision of The Good Society ." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1399985965

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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