3,187 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
How can psychology explain a mind that cannot fully comprehend its own workings? In this 1982 conference discussion, Hayek and Weimer distinguish understanding an organizing principle from predicting every particular event. Questions from psychologists and audience members press Hayek to clarify what remains essential in The Sensory Order when its provisional physiological mechanisms and associationist vocabulary are set aside. The exchange also brings his psychology into contact with economics: neurons and market participants contribute to coordinated orders without possessing all the knowledge those orders use. Readers can discover both the reach and the limits of this comparison—especially why Hayek values mathematics for describing patterns while resisting promises of exhaustive numerical prediction. The dialogue preserves qualifications and unresolved questions that a systematic exposition might smooth away.