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 seventh volume, Leeson explores Hayek's encounters with fifty knowledge communities.

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.

This tenth part of Robert Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek explores Hayek's thought on the free market and democracy.

and behind the `slogan of liberty,' White Terror promoters (Mises and Hayek) sought to concentrate power in the hands of a `dictatorial democracy' where henchmen would liquidate enemies, and - `guided' by `utopia' (the `spontaneous' order) - follow orders from their social superiors.

Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired `free' market has adopted `The Slogan of Liberty' - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science?

The eighth volume in Leeson's Hayek: A Collaborative Biography addresses social conservative Hayek's views on the government and dictatorship.

Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule `not to be concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on public opinion.' However, evidence suggests that he was a party political operative with `free' market scholarship being the vehicle through which he sought - and achieved - party political influence.