Research On Hayek's "Rule Theory"

Hayek is a thinker who has the world influence in 20 century, his thought involves many realm, for example, the economics, social philosophy, law etc. The achievements is very plentiful. The most imposing merit in his whole life consist in putting forward the judgment of the system to the planned economy system, combining detailed argument the market economy order establish with the inside mechanism that revolves, his thought has specially important meanings for China in transforming period. This text try to regard investigating to the "rule" as the main line, discusses and analyzes Hayek's basic principle, and on the foundation of comparing the Hayek with Marx, puts forward my first-step evaluation.In order to demarcating the "rule theory", the first part of the article pays attention to the definition of the concept of "rule", and looks back it's history.The second part simply describes Hayek's academia, points out the center of his scholarship activity, analyzes several basic concept closely-related with "rule theory": "freedom", "knowledge" and "rule", then draws the conclusion that his theory system takes the "freedom" as major idea, the "knowledge taxology" as foundation, the "rule" as demonstrating measure.The third part dedicates the comparison of Hayek's "rule theory" and Marx's "producing-relation theory", the ultimateness is the former offsets the lack of the latter, but also exists the blemish that only attach importance to abstract argument , deviating from the concrete history process .the eventual part try to combine H ayek 's standpoint of democracy , rule of law principle with the fact of China and find the positive meaning for Chinese rule of law development .