Overview
- Extensive use of archival material
- Considers how the free market relates to the tobacco industry and climate change
- Explores the relationship between power and liberalism
Part of the book series: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics (AIEE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Two Competing Neoclassical Traditions
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Seeing the Utopian ‘Theory of the Order as a Whole’ to ‘Make Politically Possible What Today may be Politically Impossible’
Keywords
- Austrian School of Economics
- Classical liberalism
- Karl Popper
- Karl Polanyi
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Serfdom
- Austrian Business Cycle Theory
- Ordo-liberalism
- Free markets
- neoclassical economics
- fascism
- climate change
- aristocratic influence
- white supremacism
- Nobel Prize
- Hayek
- Mises
- Labour unions
- Red Terrorists
- Use of Knowledge in Society
About this book
F.A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. The multi-volume Hayek: A Collaborative Biography examines the evolution of his life and influence.
Two concepts of civilization revolve around power – should it be separated or concentrated? Liberalism in the non-Austrian classical tradition remains fearful of power concentrated in the hands of government, labour unions or corporations; Red Terrorists sought to monopolize power to liquidate enemies and competitors as a prelude to utopia (the ‘withering away of the State’); 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. This volume, Part XII, examines the ‘free’ market Use of Knowledge in Society; examines the foundations of ‘free’ market educational credentials; and asks whether those funded by the tobacco industry and the carbon lobby should be accorded ‘independent policy expert’ status.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Book Subtitle: Part XII: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition, Austrian versus British
Authors: Robert Leeson
Series Title: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74509-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74508-4Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09009-8Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74509-1Published: 10 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-6195
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6209
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 414
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic Policy