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- Makes extensive use of archival material to support arguments and debates
- Presents a comprehensive discussion of Hayek's influence and influences
- Illustrates the impact and effect that Austrian far-right movements of the time had on Hayek's intellectual development
Part of the book series: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics (AIEE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired ‘free’ market has adopted ‘The Slogan of Liberty’ - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed ‘knowledge’ - as the epigone Godfather, Hans Sennholz, insists - what validity do its policy recommendations have? Should those who falsely claim to have PhDs be tax-funded as ‘Post-Doctoral Fellows’ and ‘Professors’?
This volume examines the consequences of the ‘free’ market colonisation of economics – climate change, financial crises and the corruption of academic discourse
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Robert Leeson
About the author
Robert Leeson has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA since 2005, National Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution since 1995 and Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Australia University since 2008. He has published numerous articles in journals including The Economic Journal and Economics and History of Political Economy. In addition to writing and editing twenty books, he is the co-editor (with Charles Palm) of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman. He has held further visiting positions at Cambridge University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University and the University of Western Ontario.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Book Subtitle: Part XI: Orwellian Rectifiers, Mises’ ‘Evil Seed' of Christianity and the ‘Free’ Market Welfare State
Authors: Robert Leeson
Series Title: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77428-2
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: 978-3-319-77427-5Published: 31 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08453-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77428-2Published: 15 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-6195
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6209
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 548
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy