Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics
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... we must constantly adjust our lives, our thoughts and our emotions, in order to live simultaneously within different kinds of orders according to different rules. If we were to apply the unmodi ed, uncurbed rules (of caring intervention to do visible “good”) of the ... small band or troop, or ... our families ... to the (extended order of cooperation through markets), as our instincts and sentimental yearnings often make us wish to do, we would destroy it. Yet if we were to always apply the (competitive) rules of the extended order to our more intimate groupings, we would crush them (Friedrich A. Hayek, 1988, p. 18; italics are his, parenthetical reductions are mine).
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