Seminar: What would Friedrich Hayek have thought of Regulation Review? Is it mired in the central planning paradigm?
Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Monday, September 24, 2007
What have these two men got in common?
And who the hell is the guy on the right anyway?
Find out at a seminar I’ll be leading tomorrow, Tuesday 25th September from 12.30-1.30pm in Seminar Room 4, on the 1st Floor of the J.G. Crawford Bldg – the Public Policy School adjacent to the famous Shine Dome in Acton.
Here’s an outline:
- Why didnt Australia make the keyless car?
- Regulation Review
- Enduring problems with Regulation
- Hayeks critique of Scientism
- Toyotas critique of Taylorism/Fordism
- Regulation review as regulatory Taylorism
- Some proposed (partial) responses
Pre-reading of Hayek is here. It’s a good read, though rather long and in some ways unnecessarily erudite for the purposes to which it’s being put in the seminar. Chapter X “Engineers and Planners” is a good extract to read – whether you’re coming or not!
If you want a ready comparison between Frieda and Friedrich Hayek, you can probably do worse than this assessment.
PS: Of course that last sentence is nonsense. I meant Salma Hayek, though managed to conjure up an alternative first name presumably from Friedrich and from the name of the person she played in a movie about Frida Kahlo.
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Is that WED on the right?
Posted on 24-Sep-07 at 10:10 pm | PermalinkOn the right we have W Edwards Deming? Ok WED.
Posted on 24-Sep-07 at 10:20 pm | Permalink