Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part IX: The Divine Right of the 'Free' Market

ISBN-13: 9783319607078 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 420 str.

Robert Leeson

Opis

F. A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. This multi-volume biography examines the evolution of his life and influence.

In this ninth volume of Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek, a variety of well-known contributors discuss Hayek's views on the divine right of the market taking democratic and free-market principles into account.

Spis treści

1. What is ‘Hayek’? Robert Leeson.- 2. Faith-Based Economics. Robert Leeson.- 3. Hayek, Mises, and the Iron Rule of Unintended Consequences.- 4. Accelerating the Climate of Hate: The Austrian School of Economics, Hayek, and ‘The New Hate.’.- 5. Christian Reconstructionism and the Austrian School of Economics.- 6. The Genealogy of Jaime Guzman’s Subsidiary State.- 7. Hayek, Thatcher, and the Muddle of the Middle.- 8. Economics and Religion, What is the Relationship? – A Case Study of Nordic Social Democracy.- 9. Clerical Fascism: Chile and Austria.- 10. Clerical Fascism: Portugal, Spain and France.- 11. 

O autorze

Robert Leeson has published numerous articles in top class journals (such as the Economic Journal and Economics and History of Political Economy). In addition to writing and editing nineteen books, he is the co-editor (with Charles Palm) of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman. He has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA since 2005, National Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution since 1995 and Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Australia University since 2008. He has held other visiting positions at Cambridge University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University and the University of Western Ontario.

Blurb

This book is the ninth volume in this series which explores the life of Nobel Price-winning economist F.A. Hayek (1899-1992). Hayek was  famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism: this multi-volume biography examines the evolution of Hayek’s life and influence.

In this volume, a variety of well-known contributors discuss Hayek's views on the divine right of the market taking democratic and free-market principles into account. Topics range from Hayek's philosophical influences, to the profound change his ideas wrought on the political and economic landscape.