Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

1. Front Matter

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2. ‘Property’ + ‘Aristocratic Dignity’ = ‘Scientific Glory’

   • Robert Leeson

   Pages 1-48

3. The ‘Free’ Market Use of (Ideological) ‘Knowledge’ in Society

   • Robert Leeson

   Pages 49-104

4. Hayek and Humboldt on Freedom and the Role of the State

   • Birsen Filip

   Pages 105-152

5. Hayek, Orwell, and the Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four?

   • Andrew Farrant, Jonathan Baughman, Edward McPhail

   Pages 153-173

6. Hayek and Popper’s Enchanting Personal and Professional Relationship

   • Birsen Filip

   Pages 175-200

7. Hayek and Popper on Historicism, Hegel, and Totalitarian Regimes

   • Birsen Filip

   Pages 201-232

8. Hayek and Popper on Piecemeal Engineering and Ordo-Liberalism

   • Birsen Filip

   Pages 233-281

9. Karl Polanyi vs Friedrich von Hayek: The Socialist Calculation Debate and Beyond

   • Gareth Dale

   Pages 283-308

10. Hayek’s Liberalism and Its Critics

    • Rafe Champion

    Pages 309-319

11. Another Road to Serfdom

    • John Komlos

    Pages 321-360

12. Triple Governance: Hayek’s Lost Thesis

    • Christopher Houghton Budd

    Pages 361-378

13. Hayek, Austrian Business Cycle Theory, and The Fatal Conceit

    • Alan Ebenstein

    Pages 379-385

14. Back Matter

    Pages 387-396

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This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek’s (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); his relationship with Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi; and the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Mises had a ‘deep emotional attachment’ to the ‘free’ market and Hayek believed that ‘science’ was driven by shallow emotions.


Hayek believed in ‘democracy as a system of peaceful change of government; but that’s all its whole advantage is, no other.’ He felt democracy simply made it possible to get rid of the government ‘we’ dislike. Hayek bemoaned the decay of superstition — the ‘supporting moral beliefs’ – that are required to maintain ‘our’ civilization. Yet his Road to Serfdom neglected ‘another road to serfdom’ – the possibility that there were multiple threats to individual freedom –not just State power. In contrast, many other scholars and public intellectual warned of the dangers of the concentration of power in institutions other than the State. Today those fears have materialized in the guise of wealthy mega-corporations and billionaires whose influence on government, on elections, on popular culture and on the dominant ideology, have been able to change the rules of the market in their favour – so that ‘we’ have now become trapped in a new kind of serfdom. With contributions from a range of highly regarded scholars, this volume continues the Biography’s rich exploration of Hayek’s work and beliefs.

• Orwell
• Hayek
• Popper
• Humboldt
• Polanyi
• Liberalism
• The Road to Serfdom
• The role of the State
• Ordo-liberalism

• Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Robert Leeson

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.

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