The Cambridge companion to Hayek / edited by Edward Feser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feser, Edward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Hayek, Friedrich A. von.

Economics.

Physical Description:

xvii, 342 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Companion to Hayek

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. F. A. Hayek (1899-1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an "anti-Marx" who did more than any other recent thinker to elucidate the theoretical foundations of the free-market economy. His account of the role played by market prices in transmitting economic knowledge economic planning, and his famous book The Road to Serfdom was a prophetic statement of the dangers which socialism posed to a free and open society. He also made significant contributions to fields as diverse as the philosophy of law, the theory of complex systems, and cognitive science. The essays in this volume, by an international team of contributors, provide a critical introduction to all aspects of Hayek's thought. New readers will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Hayek currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Hayek.

Contents:

1 Hayek and the Austrian tradition / Bruce Caldwell 13

2 Hayek on money and the business cycle / Roger E. Backhouse 34

3 Hayek and market socialism / Peter J. Boettke 51

4 Hayek and Marx / Meghnad Desai 67

5 Hayek versus Keynes: the road to reconciliation / Robert Skidelsky 82

6 Hayek on knowledge, economics, and society / Andrew Gamble 111

7 Hayek and Popper: the road to serfdom and the open society / Anthony O'Hear 132

8 Hayek's politics / Jeremy Shearmur 148

9 Hayek the philosopher of law / Aeon J. Skoble 171

10 Hayek and liberalism / Chandran Kukathas 182

11 Hayek and conservatism / Roger Scruton 208

12 Hayek on the evolution of society and mind / Gerald F. Gaus 232

13 Hayek on justice and the order of actions / Eric Mack 259

14 Hayek the cognitive scientist and philosopher of mind / Edward Feser 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521849772

0521615011

OCLC:

71347533

Publisher Number:

9780521849777

9780521615013