The Impossibility of Psychohistory: Asimov, Hayek, and the Search for Utopia

Final Project Proposal 2/6/2021

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series was first published as a set of connected stories from 1942 to 1950. From 1951, these stories were collected and expanded on as they were published in three novels: 1951’s Foundation, followed the next year by Foundation and Empire, and finishing with Second Foundation in 1952. Though later in his life, Asimov created more stories and books within the universe starting with 1982’s Foundation’s Edge, the original series was presented as a…