Contra Keynes and Cambridge recreates the original debate between Hayek and John Maynard Keynes which began on the pages of Economica in 1931 and which, in its implications for both economic theory and policy, is yet to be resolved. This volume reproduces all of the significant contributions including Keynes' and Sraffa's replies to Hayek. One major piece by Hayek - The Economics of the 1930s as Seen from London - is published for the first time, and the volume includes extensive notes and an authoritative introduction.

Aims to advance contemporary understanding of the economic and political issues confronting the world. This book is intended for use by students, lecturers and researchers in the fields of economics, philosophy and political theory.

This work remains one of the all-time classics of 20th-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. Hayek argues that, while socialist ideals may be tempting, they cannot be accomplished except by means that few would approve of. Addressing economics, fascism, history, socialism and the Holocaust, Hayek unwraps the trappings of socialist ideology. He reveals to the world that little can result from such ideas except oppression and tyranny. Today, more than...

In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned economies. First published in the 1930s and 40s, these essays continue to illuminate the problems faced by developing and formerly socialist countries.

F. A. Hayek, recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, taught at the University of Chicago, the University of London, and the...