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Article: Globalization and peace: a Hayekian perspective.(Friedrich A. von Hayek)(Critical essay)
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- Libertarian Papers
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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"Para mi, los estados, son producto de las fantasias de los hombres. ?Como explicar de otro modo que al sur de una linea la tierra cambie de nombre?"
--Jorge Luis Borges (1978) (1)
Introduction
IN HIS Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1967, p. 168), Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich A. von Hayek explains that "from the first establishment of [trade] which served reciprocal but not common purposes, a process has been going on for millennia which, by making rules of conduct independent of the particular purposes of those concerned, made it possible to extend these rules to ever wider circles of undetermined persons and eventually might ...