Work and Dependencies
The Work & Dependency research group examines the relationship and tensions between a culture of work, self-reliance, and self-governance and the role of government programs.
This project will build on the work by Hayek Program scholars on self-governance as well as on the failures and unintended consequences of government programs. This project will explore the importance of self-governance and the challenge of dependency; how the balance between work, social associations, and government programs changed over time in the US and how this change manifests in levels of individual responsibility and/or social dependency among the citizenry; and how a more active state erodes the common conventions of community interdependence necessary to sustain a free society.
Latest work in Work and Dependencies
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Reassessing the Notion of Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance

- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Tax Reform 2.0: Solving the 'Skills Gap' with One Weird Trick

- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
More Teens Find Summer Jobs and Enjoy the Value of Work
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
"Markets in Education" with David Schmidtz
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Public Debt

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy, and Public Debt
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Political Economy and the Supply of Macro Guidance
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Engines, Ecologies, and Economic Systems
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Budgeting and Public Debt within a System of Cooperative Democracy
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Public Debt within Systems of Monopolistic Democracy
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
'Monstrous Moral Hybrids' and the Corrupting Quality of Public Debt
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Free Thoughts Podcast: Richard E. Wagner Discusses 'Politics as a Peculiar Business'

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Re-Evaluating Community Policing in a Polycentric System

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Neither Market nor State Domain

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Politics as a Peculiar Business

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Nudging in an Evolving Marketplace

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Taming Leviathan

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Federal Reserve System's Overreach into Credit Allocation

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Web Page
Commentary on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Latest work in Work and Dependencies
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Reassessing the Notion of Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance

- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Tax Reform 2.0: Solving the 'Skills Gap' with One Weird Trick

- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
More Teens Find Summer Jobs and Enjoy the Value of Work
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
"Markets in Education" with David Schmidtz
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Public Debt

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy, and Public Debt
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Political Economy and the Supply of Macro Guidance
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Engines, Ecologies, and Economic Systems
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Budgeting and Public Debt within a System of Cooperative Democracy
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Public Debt within Systems of Monopolistic Democracy
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
'Monstrous Moral Hybrids' and the Corrupting Quality of Public Debt
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Free Thoughts Podcast: Richard E. Wagner Discusses 'Politics as a Peculiar Business'

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Re-Evaluating Community Policing in a Polycentric System

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Neither Market nor State Domain

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Politics as a Peculiar Business

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Nudging in an Evolving Marketplace

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Taming Leviathan

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Federal Reserve System's Overreach into Credit Allocation

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Web Page
Commentary on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Latest work in Work and Dependencies
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Public Entrepreneurship, Citizenship, and Self-Governance

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Public Debt

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy, and Public Debt
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Political Economy and the Supply of Macro Guidance
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Engines, Ecologies, and Economic Systems
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Budgeting and Public Debt within a System of Cooperative Democracy
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Public Debt within Systems of Monopolistic Democracy
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
'Monstrous Moral Hybrids' and the Corrupting Quality of Public Debt
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Re-Evaluating Community Policing in a Polycentric System

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Neither Market nor State Domain

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Books Books
Politics as a Peculiar Business

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Working Papers Working Papers
Nudging in an Evolving Marketplace

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
Taming Leviathan

- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Journal Articles Journal Articles
The Federal Reserve System's Overreach into Credit Allocation

Latest work in Work and Dependencies
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Mercatus Original Podcasts Mercatus Original Podcasts
- | Hayek Program Podcast Hayek Program Podcast
"Markets in Education" with David Schmidtz
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Free Thoughts Podcast: Richard E. Wagner Discusses 'Politics as a Peculiar Business'

Latest work in Work and Dependencies
- | F. A. Hayek Program F. A. Hayek Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Reassessing the Notion of Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic

- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Tax Reform 2.0: Solving the 'Skills Gap' with One Weird Trick

- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary