David Hume, Economic Rationality, and Policy: Symposium Introduction

Abstract This is an introduction to the symposium, "David Hume, Economic Rationality, and Policy." Topics treated in the symposium include the idea of true preferences; Hume's theory of preferences in relation to his economic philosophy; justice and markets as a joint coordination regime; the instability of general, inflexible rules; conservatism and liberalism; the ethics of policy innovation; Hume and classical economics; group analytics and contemporary political sociology.