TY - GEN A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - New Political Economy, Scientism and Knowledge: A Critique from a Hayekian Perspective, and a Proposal for an Extension of the Research Agenda T2 - The American Journal of Economics and Sociology N2 - New Political Economy has something very important in common with welfare economics: its focus on static, technical efficiency criteria to judge the rationality of a social, political or economic order. This often leads theorists to perceive their objects of research as well-defined problems to which clear-cut solutions can be found and prescribed as policy proposals, addressed at the policymaker or the democratic sovereign. This perspective frequently excludes important empirical phenomena from the research agenda. Although, for example, certain well-defined informational asymmetries are frequently modeled, fundamental knowledge problems such as ignorance of the true model of the economy are usually ignored. In the present paper, this approach is criticized from a Hayekian point of view, with an emphasis on the problems of "scientism" (i.e., the inappropriate transfer of methods from the natural to the social sciences) and irremediably imperfect knowledge, troubling both the agents in the theoretical model and the theorist. Furthermore, it is argued and illustrated with two examples that an extension of Public Choice's research agenda along Hayekian lines may be fruitful, because it leads to a fresh perception even of such problems that already have been extensively researched within the traditional framework. Y1 - 2002 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/3487744 SN - 0002-9246 SN - 1536-7150 VL - 61 IS - 1 SP - 193 EP - 214 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan ED - Moss, Laurence S. T1 - New Political Economy, Scientism and Knowledge: A Critique from a Hayekian Perspective T2 - The New Political Economies: A Collection of Essays from Around the World Y1 - 2002 SN - 0-631-23497-7 SN - 0-631-23496-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1536-7150.00156 N1 - Reprint aus dem American Journal of Economics and Sociology SP - 193 EP - 214 PB - Blackwell Publishers CY - Malden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten: Kritik der reinen Theorie des internationalen Handelns, Bd. 1: Transaktionskostentheoretische Grundlagen. Marburg : Metropolis Verlag, 2001 JF - Aussenwirtschaft Y1 - 2002 VL - 57 IS - 2 SP - 251 EP - 254 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - Bouckaert, Boudewijn (Hrsg.): Hayek Revisited. Cheltenham : Elgar, 2000 JF - Aussenwirtschaft Y1 - 2002 VL - 57 IS - 1 SP - 109 EP - 112 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan ED - Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Marco T1 - Institutioneller Wandel in der EU: Der Fall der Osterweiterung T2 - Perspektiven des Wandels - Evolutorische Ökonomik in der Anwendung Y1 - 2002 SN - 3-89518-369-5 SN - 978-3-89518-369-0 SP - 373 EP - 413 PB - Metropolis CY - Marburg ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - The Evolution of a Fiscal Constitution When Individuals are Theoretically Uncertain T2 - European Journal of Law and Economics N2 - In contrast to the contractarian approach to constitutional economics, we follow Voigt (1999) in assuming that constitutional rules are closely connected to informal institutions and that their evolution is a matter of interest group activity and implicit re-interpretation. We add to this the assumption of theoretical uncertainty of individuals regarding the working properties of constitutional rules. Collective learning processes are considered as the third driving force of constitutional evolution, and at the same time as the source of path-dependencies which allow suboptimal constitutions to persist. Finally, it is argued that direct legislation offers more protection than a written fiscal constitution. KW - positive constitutional economics KW - collective learning KW - path-dependent rule-evolution Y1 - 2004 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026389926709 SN - 0929-1261 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 97 EP - 115 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan A1 - Feld, Lars P. ED - Schaltegger, Christoph A. ED - Schaltegger, Stefan T1 - Begünstigt fiskalischer Wettbewerb die Politikinnovation und -diffusion? Theoretische Anmerkungen und erste Befunde aus Fallstudien T2 - Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik - Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. René L. Frey Y1 - 2004 SN - 3-7281-2939-1 SP - 259 EP - 277 PB - vdf Hochschulverl. CY - Zürich ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - Dezentrale Finanzpolitik und Modellunsicherheit Y1 - 2004 SN - 978-3-16-148293-9 N1 - Sankt Gallen, Universität, Dissertation, 2002 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan ED - Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Marco ED - Ebner, Alexander ED - Fornahl, Dirk T1 - Vielfalt in der Wirtschaftspolitik: Die Dahrendorf-Hypothese aus ökonomischer Sicht T2 - Institutioneller Wandel, Marktprozesse und dynamische Wirtschaftspolitik Y1 - 2004 SN - 3-89518-468-3 SP - 403 EP - 418 PB - Metropolis CY - Marburg ER - TY - CHAP ED - Backhaus, Jürgen G. T1 - Hayek and the Evolution of Designed Institutions: A critical assessment T2 - Entrepreneurship, money and coordination : Hayek's theory of cultural evolution Y1 - 2005 SN - 1-84542-130-2 SP - 107 EP - 130 PB - Elgar CY - Cheltenham ER -