WHAT IS THE HAYEK SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY?
Hayek School: In general, school and university education is developed under positivist and constructivist approaches. Thus, continuously and almost naturally, individuals lose their autonomy. There is a collective control over the individual. These focuses and cycles are reproduced over and over again. This is a difficulty in understanding your individual rights. Thus, people easily ascribe to collectivist, populist and totalitarian views. This is a problem in Latin American countries.
If we want free societies and individuals, it is necessary to train young people with solid liberal principles. One way to do this is through the sciences of human behavior. Specifically, psychology is a good epistemological, theoretical and conceptual instrument
In this sense, it is put to the consideration of the Hayek School, whose fundamental objective is to recover the being and their individual rights, in addition to the human and the interaction with them. Essentially, there are related, common, praxeological, substantial subjects that link the behavioral sciences with economics and liberalism. Herein lies the essence that explains freedom itself, as a product of human nature itself. Under these premises, there is the possibility of analyzing the scope of experimental methods in the measurement and extrapolation of human behaviors.
In the part of academic organization, it has been thought about curricular meshes referred to thematic axes on the evolutionary processes; pre and adaptive forms, evolution of institutions. At the level of behavioral microeconomics, cost-benefit analysis, unemployment, time preferences, savings, consumption; among other behaviors.