Througout his life Friedrich August von Hayek had a profound interest in money and its role within the economy. Money plays a critical part in his 1920s work on the trade cycle, which attempts to integrate capital theory and monetary theory. As late as the 1970s, Hayek was advocating radical reform of the monetary system, suggesting that the supply of money be turned over to private enterprise. This volume, together with Volume Six, Good Money, Part Two, collects all of Hayek's significant writings on money. Together they demonstrate both the significance of sound money in Hayek's economic...

Througout his life Hayek had a profound interest in money and its role within the economy. Money plays a critical part in his 1920s work on the trade cycle, which attempts to integrate capital theory and monetary theory. As late as the 1970s, Hayek was advocating radical reform of the monetary system, suggesting that the supply of money be turned over to private enterprise. This volume, together with Volume Five, Good Money, Part One, collects all of Hayek's significant writings on money. Together they demonstrate both the significance of sound money in Hayek's economic vision, and Hayek's...

In the last two decades Hayek's reputation has undergone a remarkable revival, and he is regarded as one of the greatest economists, political philosophers and social theorists of the century. However not only did he not write an autobiography, his appointed biographer, W.W. Bartley, died before that work was complete. Drawing on Hayek's extensive autobiographical notes and the many lengthy interviews he gave towards the end of this career, Hayek on Hayek traces his life's work in his own words. The result is an accessible introduction to Hayek. Hayek on Hayek follows its subject from his...