In this collection of essays, F.A. Hayek traces his intellectual roots to the Austrian school of economics and links it to the modern rebirth of classical liberal or libertarian thought. There is much new interesting material here for scholars of Hayek: essays on Hayek's early life and on the intellectual climate of Vienna in the early part of the twentieth century; Hayek's opening address to the inaugural meeting of the Mont P. Elerin Society and other material from the period when Hayek was playing his part in the revival of liberal thought; Hayek's views on his teachers and on other...

This third volume in a series which collects the published works of F.A. Hayek covers his thoughts on the methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its debates. It includes an introduction which places the essays in their historical and theoretical context.