By Steven Horwitz
Hayek's glossy kin bargains a classical liberal concept of the kin, taking Hayekian social idea because the major analytical framework. Horwitz argues that households are social associations that practice yes irreplaceable services in society. As monetary, political, and social conditions swap these features swap, and the different types of the kinfolk that sufficiently satisfy these features additionally switch over the years as these features and the encompassing social constructions swap. In Hayekian phrases, the relatives is an evolving and undesigned social establishment. Horwitz bargains a non-conservative protection of the kinfolk as a social establishment opposed to the view that both the kingdom or "the village" is ready or required to take over its irreplaceable services.
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2. Liberalism. 3. Economics—Sociological aspects. I. Title. 85—dc23 2015009755 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. , Chennai, India. First edition: September 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Andrew and Rachel. 2 Frequency of various consumer goods in households below the poverty line vs. all US households Acknowledgments Bringing this book to publication has been an unexpectedly long process. Before I wrote on the economics of the family, I wrote on money and macroeconomics.
Other major figures in the classical liberal revival (Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, and Nozick to name a few) also had relatively little to say about the family as a social institution. Among those working in the classical liberal tradition, the only sustained attention to the family has been from economists, particularly the late Gary Becker and others working in the Chicago tradition from which he wrote. As I will argue later, the economics of the family is an important part of a classical liberal analysis, but it is far from complete, and the Chicago approach, in particular, has shortcomings.
If not, how do we make such distinctions? And will such distinctions be relevant for all the sorts of issues that might arise in family law and policy? For example, we might think a 15-year-old girl is “adult enough” to have a significant say in which parent she lives with during a contested custody battle in a divorce, but would we also say she is “adult enough” to decide to have an abortion without parental notification or consent? Current law allows a 15-year-old access to an abortion without parental consent (for the most part) but not a tattoo.