All Articles tagged evolution

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  July 01, 2025 CDT
  F. A. Hayek’s Thinking in the Light of Evolutionary Science: A Vindication and a Warning
  Juan Perote-Peña

  This article discusses F.A.Hayek's evolutionary theory of institutions and society in light of recent evidence.

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  October 24, 2024 CDT
  Classical Liberalism’s Evolutionary Foundations Reconsidered
  James A. Montanye

  This article examines Hayek's reliance on Darwinian theory in his classical liberal principles, and the connection to modern theories of complex adaptive systems.

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  December 15, 2021 CDT
  How and Why Fascism and Nazism Became the “Right”
  Allen Gindler

  Allen Gindler shows the origin and historical background of the artificial shift of fascism and National Socialism to the right side of the political spectrum.

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  May 24, 2021 CDT
  Spencer and Hayek’s Liberal Evolutionism, and Why It Should Omit the Nation-State
  Scott Boykin

  Evolutionary social theory can form part of a liberal theory of politics, but Hayek and Spencer's evolutionary arguments to explain the emergence of freedom in mass societies are deficient.

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