Overview
- Extensive use of archival material
- Contributions from several well-known Hayek scholars
- Comprehensive discussion of Hayek's influence and influences
Part of the book series: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics (AIEE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Gods of the ‘Free’ Market
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Eugenics, Cultural Evolution, and Ethics
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Imanishi, Darwinian Evolution, and the Fatal Conceit
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About this book
This tenth part of Robert Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek explores Hayek’s thought on the free market and democracy. Using an unparalleled array of archival materials, Leeson reconstructs Hayek’s thinking as the notorious economist and his acolytes set about reshaping the post-war economic order. Darker areas of Hayek’s thought are also explored, including the influence of eugenics on his thought and his support for radical right-wing dictatorships in South America.
Leeson concludes this volume with a collection of chapters written by eminent scholars of Hayek. These chapters cover subjects as diverse as Hayek’s influence on scholars of Darwinian evolution, his views on psychology, and cultural evolution.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert Leeson has published numerous articles in journals including the Economic Journal and Economics and History of Political Economy. In addition to writing and editing nineteen books, he is the co-editor (with Charles Palm) of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman. He 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 held other 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 X: Eugenics, Cultural Evolution, and The Fatal Conceit
Authors: Robert Leeson
Series Title: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61714-5
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 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61713-8Published: 04 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87142-4Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61714-5Published: 22 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-6195
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6209
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 498