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The Hayek Workshop

Key information

  • Module code:

    6SSPP371

  • Level:

    6

  • Semester:

      Autumn

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

In this module, students will engage in detail with the thought of Friedrich Hayek and the secondary source literature relevant to it in a seminar format. The seminar format will require close reading on their part of the key texts set out below in the Provisional Reading List.  The core text in this respect, and the text that will be most closely read over the duration of the Semester, will be his 3 volume Law, Legislation and Liberty.    

Assessment details

3500 Word Essay (100%)

Educational aims & objectives

This course is designed to give students:

  • An advanced UG understanding of the thought of Hayek, including his epistemology, economics and political and legal theory.
  • the ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the ideas and arguments under consideration
  • the ability to convert these assessments into well-structured essays
  • the ability to recommend improvements to the text’s ideas and arguments.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students will be able to:

  • to understand the philosophical underpinnings to Hayek’s contributions to debates in economics, politics and law
  • to critically assess, at length and in essay format, the strengths and weaknesses of his contributions to these debates

Teaching pattern

1-hour lecture & 1-hour seminar weekly

Department

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