Steven Horwitz

In my mail yesterday arrived volume 13 of Advances in Austrian Economics, entitled The Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order, edited by our good friend Bill Butos. A glance at the table of contents indicates that this will be an indispensible volume for those interested in Hayek's cognitive theory and especially its relationship to his social science.

It includes my paper on "The Sensory Order and Organizational Learning," in which I apply/analogize Hayek's theory of cognition and learning to how firms use market signals such as profit and loss to learn. The volume also includes the (infamous?) D'Amico and Boettke paper attacking what they call "Neuro-Hayekianism" and responses by Roger Koppl and me to their criticisms of our work, as well as a rejoinder by Dan and Pete.

It's not cheap, but your institution might have access to it through your library. Roger Koppl and I are the current Series Editors for Advances and we are working with Emerald to see if we can get a discount for SDAE members. We hope to be able to do so in the near future. For now, get this volume if you can.