tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777811208127290085.post2515039347684829639..comments2011-07-01T07:30:42.254-03:00Comments on EVOLUTIONISM AND COMPLEXITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCES: Complex Phenomena and the Social SciencesElianaShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10482346067440819428noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777811208127290085.post-39262193370527484322011-06-30T23:41:56.882-03:002011-06-30T23:41:56.882-03:00For Hayek it is about patterns of behavior, meanin...For Hayek it is about patterns of behavior, meaning that it is imprecise and ever-changing. Individual economic interactions, for example, give rise to the emergent market economy, which in turn affects the economic behaviors of the individuals making up the economy. One cannot predict what will happen, or what the economy will produce, or what specific patterns will emerge, though we can predict that certain kinds of patterns will exist under certain conditions/institutions.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777811208127290085.post-38992951597524739532010-09-03T00:14:07.158-03:002010-09-03T00:14:07.158-03:00Thank you Pablo for you comment!
In relation to y...Thank you Pablo for you comment!<br /><br />In relation to your first point, yes, I agree that the notion of order is, in some way, related to the one of complex phenomena.<br /><br />Some years after the paper on Complex Phenomena, in his book "Law, Legislation and Liberty", Hayek explains that an order is “a state of affairs in which a multiplicity of elements of various kinds are so related to each other that we may learn from our acquaintance with some spatial or temporal part of the whole to form correct expectations concerning the rest, or at least expectations which have a good chance of proving correct.” (Hayek, 1973: 36)<br /><br />But I think that the notion of order (or at least that of spontaneous orders) is understood by Hayek as a type of complex phenomena. For example, when he refers to Law as a spontaneous order, he cites his own paper on Complex Phenomena. I agree with you about the idea that the notion of complex phenomena relies upon that of emergence. The idea that certain regularities, such as institutions, rules and even orders, are the non-deliberate outcome of this kind of phenomena is based on the notion of emergence. I would like to analyse this notion more deeply and elaborate further. Do you have any notion of emergence that would like to discuss? Cheers! ElianaElianaShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10482346067440819428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777811208127290085.post-84189933863447701132010-08-10T07:38:42.311-03:002010-08-10T07:38:42.311-03:00Eliana,
Two things:
i) Perhaps the notion of ord...Eliana,<br /><br />Two things:<br /><br />i) Perhaps the notion of order is somehow implied by that of complex phenomena in the sense that since all variables involved in a phenomena cannot be isolated, order is a prerequisite which allows one to pick a set of variables as those by virtue of which the an instance of the pattern exhibits all the characteristic attributes of the class of pattern in question.<br /><br />ii) Would you say that Hayek's notion of complex phenomena relies upon that of emergence? <br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />PabloCPabloCnoreply@blogger.com