Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Two Competing Neoclassical Traditions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. ‘Austrian Thought and Fascism’: ‘The Victory of Fascism in a Number of Countries Is Only an Episode in the Long Series of Struggles Over the Problem of Property’

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 3-64

   3. ‘Persuade the Intellectuals in the Hopes that Ultimately They Could Be Converted and Transmit My Ideas to the Public at Large’

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 65-102

   4. Hayek and Aristocratic Influence

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 103-154

   5. Pigouvian Market Failure

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 155-191

3. Seeing the Utopian ‘Theory of the Order as a Whole’ to ‘Make Politically Possible What Today may be Politically Impossible’

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Britain, White Supremacism and the ‘International Right’

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 195-263

   3. The ‘Free’ Market ‘Emergency’ Demand for ‘Fascism’

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 265-303

   4. ‘[Italian] Fascism’

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 305-338

   5. Austrian ‘Instincts,’ Serfdom, and Spanish and Portuguese ‘Fascism’

      • Robert Leeson

      Pages 339-365

4. Back Matter

   Pages 367-414

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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.  

• 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

• Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Robert Leeson

Robert Leeson is Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University, US.  He is a prolific researcher whose articles have appeared in the world’s leading general journals such as the Economic Journal and Economica.  On a broad measure of publications, he was ranked joint 17th (with Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson) in the list of the world’s top 500 economists on the basis of the number of journal articles included in the ECONLIT database of the American Economic Association. In addition to editing A.W.H. Phillips’ Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective, Leeson co-edited Milton Friedman’s Collected Writings. This is his 25th book.

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