"Hayek’s writings on cultural evolution are some of his most controversial. Some of the criticisms that have been advanced are:1) that his analysis of the evolutionary process is too pessimistic, leaving little room for attempts to improve the institutional or constitutional setting; 2) that Hayek’s endorsement of group selection as the mechanism by which cultural institutions are selected is inconsistent with his methodological individualism; and 3) that group selection itself has been discredited among biologists on grounds that are germane to its applications in the social sciences."
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Bruce Caldwell, "The Emergence of Hayek’s Ideas on Cultural Evolution", Review of Austrian Economics, 13: 5–22 (2000)
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