Hayek e a racionalidade econômica: entre o instituto e a razão

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show that the economic rationality needs the consideration of a third domain of social phenomena and objects, neither instinctual in origin nor yet the result of conscious contrivance or purposive construction, the domain of evolved and self-regulating structures in society via the 'natural' selection of rules of action and perception. A domain (between instinct and reason) that is systematically neglected in the dominant corrent of social sciences: the spontaneous order. Indeed, for Hayek the order of our social environment is only partly the result of human design. It is just the temptation to regard it all as the intended produt of human action that Hayek calls the fatal conceit A fatal conceit that unknows that the
insight that not all order results from the Interplay of human actions is result of design is, indeed, the beginning of social theory.