The functions of the family in the great society
回应了霍奇森等人对哈耶克及奥地利学派无法提供家庭理论的批评，探讨了家庭在市场社会中的功能，认为家庭是连接面对面社会组织与匿名大社会秩序的桥梁，并联系哈耶克的知识与激励理论，说明家庭在传授社会规则方面的独特作用。
Criticisms by Hodgson and others that Hayek and other Austrians cannot offer a theory of the family are responded to with a discussion of the functions of the family in a market society. The family can be understood as a bridge between what Hayek terms 'organisations', or face-to-face social institutions and 'orders', or the anonymous social institutions of the Great Society. The family's necessary role is then linked to familiar Hayekian themes of knowledge and incentives. Families help us to learn the explicit and tacit social rules necessary for functioning in the wider world, and families are uniquely positioned to do so, because it is those closest to us who have the knowledge and incentives necessary to provide that learning. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.