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Pete Boettke - Is Hayek Still Relevant?

The Curious Task

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The False View of Social Justice

Hayek is arguing that when we get annoyed about the distribution of income and we have notions of social justice, it's because we believe there's a central distributor just like the monkeys do or the monkey excel experience. And what is it that he's warning against when people pursue a kind of false view of social justice? Again, it's not that Hayek says social justice is an oxymoron, you know, and then stop the conversation, right?"

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