Hayek's journey : the mind of Friedrich Hayek / Alan Ebenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ebenstein, Alan O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992.

Hayek, Friedrich A. von.

Economists--Austria--Biography.

Economists.

Austria.

Economics.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 283 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Palgrave Macmillan edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

As A Follow-Up to His Brilliant biography of Friedrich Hayek, Alan Ebenstein takes readers on a deeper journey into the mind of the man who was, arguably, one of the most brilliant thinkers of the twenticth century. Going beyond the story of Hayek's life, Hayek's Journcy gives readers an in-depth look at the evolution of his thought. In individual chapters devoted to the great influences on Hayek, Ebenstein looks at the Austrian School of Economics, Ludwig von Mises, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Popper, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and others. By working forward from these great influences to the great works of Hayek's oeuvre like The Road to Scrfdom and The Constitution of Liberty, Ebenstein builds a complex intellectual portrait of the theorist who has had a greater effect on late twentieth century economic and political thought than any other. This is a classic of Hayek scholarship written in readable prose by his biographer. Anyone who read Alan Ebenstein's biography of Hayek will want this brilliant companion volume to complete the portrait of a complex and influential thinker.

Contents:

1. Darwinian Evolutionary Theory 1

2. German and Viennese Intellectual Thought 9

3. The Austrian School of Economics 19

4. Ludwig von Mises 35

5. Money and Capital 57

6. John Maynard Keynes 77

7. From Economic Theory to Political Philosophy 89

8. "The Abuse and Decline of Knowledge" 107

9. The Road to Serfdom 117

10. Epistemology, Psychology, and Methodology 127

11. The Constitution of Liberty 139

12. Marx, Mill, and Freud 157

13. The Chicago School of Economics and Milton Friedman 163

14. Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics 171

15. Karl Popper 177

16. Law, Legislation and Liberty 187

17. Later Monetary Work 205

18. "The Fatal Conceit" 211

19. Sundown 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]- 277) and index.

ISBN:

1403960380

OCLC:

52358098