Launch of Eric Aaron’s new book “Market versus Nature”

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On March 28, I’ll be launch­ing Eric Aaron’s lat­est book Mar­ket ver­sus Nature: The social phi­los­o­phy of Friedrich Hayek. The venue is:

Glee­books – 49 Glebe Point Road

Time: 6pm for drinks before a 6.30pm start; fin­ish by 8.30pm

Eric’s ear­li­er books include What’s Left–which is a mem­oir, an eval­u­a­tion of the fail­ure of com­mu­nism, and an attempt to dis­cern what remains of mer­it in social­ist thought after the col­lapse of com­mu­nism in the 1990s–and What’s Right–which blend­ed insights from polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy, eco­nom­ics and biol­o­gy to put the case for a more eth­i­cal approach to the future of human­i­ty.

In Mar­ket ver­sus Nature, Eric eval­u­ates the eco­nom­ic and social the­o­ries of Hayek from the point of view of their com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with the envi­ron­ment and social jus­tice.

Eric’s per­spec­tive is a very rich one. Many of those who once sup­port­ed and sub­se­quent­ly reject­ed social­ism have done a com­plete flip from one “reli­gion” to another–and have as uncrit­i­cal­ly embraced a free-mar­ket phi­los­o­phy as they once did a social­ist one. Eric has always put human­ism and ethics as his guid­ing prin­ci­ples. He pro­vides a crit­i­cal  per­spec­tive on both Hayek’s advo­ca­cy of mar­kets, and the anti-mar­ket stance of Hayek’s con­ven­tion­al social­ist rivals.