Erschienen in:Appears at Liberal Currents December 2017
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1 Online-Ressource (12 p)
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Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3083589
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 6, 2017 erstellt
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The name Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) is little known outside of Sweden, but the volume Freedom in Sweden: Selected Works of Erik Gustaf Geijer (Timbro, 2017) translates choice works and presents Geijer to modern readers. In this essay we provide an introduction to Geijer (pronounced yay-yer). We raise the question of whether his declaring, in 1838, in dramatic fashion, for liberalism was an ideological migration or a coming out of the closet. We discuss the scope and flavor of his discourse, and suggest that he belongs in the company of moral philosophers and historians of civilization such as David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Alexis de Tocqueville. We highlight his essay “An Economic Dream,” which prefigured Hayek's likening of the price system to an allegory of society-spanning communication and intelligence