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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226181502

ISBN-139780226181509

eBay Product ID (ePID)2409478

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Book TitleFriedrich Hayek : a Biography

Number of Pages411 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicCultural Heritage, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Political, Economics / Theory, Free Enterprise

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, Business & Economics

AuthorAlan Ebenstein

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-075653

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal330/.092 B

Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part One - War, 1899-1931 1. Family 2. World War I 3. University of Vienna 4. New York 5. Mises Part Two - England, 1931-1939 6. LSE 7. Robbins 8. Keynes 9. Money and Business Fluctuations 10. Capital 11. International Gold Standard 12. Socialist Calculation 13. Economics, Knowledge, and Information Part Three - Cambridge, 1940-1949 14. The Abuse and Decline of Reason 15. Methodology 16. The Road to Serfdom 17. Celebrity 18. Mont Pelerin Society 19. Psychology 20. Popper Part Four - America, 1950-1962 21. University of Chicago 22. Chicago School of Economics 23. Committee on Social Thought 24. Mill 25. The Construction of Liberty 26. Influence Part Five - Freiburg, 1962-1974 27. Law, Legislation and Liberty 28. Liberty and Law 29. Marx, Evolution, and Utopia 30. Government and Morals 31. History of Ideas 32. Salzburg Part Six - Nobel Prize, 1974-1992 33. Laureate 34. Friedman 35. Later Monetary Thinking 36. IEA 37. Thatcher 38. Opa 39. The Fatal Conceit 40. Neustift am Wald 41. "Universal Order of Peace" Appendix Chronology of Hayek's Major Works Bibliographical Essay Abbreviations Notes Index

SynopsisIn the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-siècle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, political philosopher, and leading public intellectual. Ebenstein gives a balanced, integrated account of Hayek's diverse body of work, from his first encounter with free market ideas to his magisterial writings in later life on the legal, political, ethical, and economic requirements of a free society., In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-si cle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, political philosopher, and leading public intellectual. Ebenstein gives a balanced, integrated account of Hayek's diverse body of work, from his first encounter with free market ideas to his magisterial writings in later life on the legal, political, ethical, and economic requirements of a free society.

LC Classification NumberHB103.H3E23 2003