Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Fraud

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 3-27

   3. History’s Greatest Fraud?

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 28-70

   4. The ‘Deacon’ McCormick Papers

      • Ian Sayer

      Pages 71-72

   5. Insights from one of ‘Deacon’ McCormick’s Research Assistants

      • Nigel West

      Pages 73-76

3. Victims

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. The Triumph of Rhetoric: Pigou as Keynesian Whipping Boy and its Unintended Consequences

      • Robert Leeson, Daniel Schiffman

      Pages 79-126

   3. Wilfrid Noyce

      • Stewart Hawkins

      Pages 127-136

4. Evidence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Hayek and ‘Deacon’ McCormick: Testing Austrian Knowledge

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 139-188

   3. Professional Assessments

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 189-200

   4. ‘Deacon’ McCormick and the Madoc Myth

      • Howard Kimberley

      Pages 201-213

   5. Assessing ‘Deacon’ McCormick from the Perspective of the Intelligence Community

      • Daniel Baldino

      Pages 214-228

   6. Authoritative Sources: The Information Research Department, Journalism and Publishing

      • John Jenks

      Pages 229-235

   7. Donald McCormick: 2 + 2 = 5

      • Richard B. Spence

      Pages 236-256

   8. The Fake Hitler Diary

      • Gerhard L. Weinberg

      Pages 257-261

   9. Sources and ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 262-294

5. Back Matter

   Pages 295-302

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F.A. Hayek (1899-1992), the co-leader of the Austrian free market school, embraced the transparently fraudulent assertion made by Donald McCormick, aka Richard Deacon, in The British Connection which accused A.C. Pigou, the co-leader of the Cambridge market failure school, of being a Soviet spy.

• Fraud
• information
• John Maynard Keynes
• Keynes
• publishing
• research
• rhetoric

• Stanford University, USA

  Robert Leeson

Daniel Baldino, Notre Dame Australia University Stewart Hawkins John Jenks, Dominican University, USA Howard Kimberley, independent historian Robert Leeson, Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and Adjunct Professor Notre Dame Australia University Ian Sayer Daniel Schiffman, Ariel University Richard Spence, University of Idaho, USA Nigel West Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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