Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich August von Hayek, a reserved Austrian economist, died in 1992. Though largely unrecognized during his lifetime, he is today regarded as a visionary. In 1944, in the wake of the great Depression and with the political left on the ascendant, Hayek published his seminal work, The Road to Serfdom, damning communism and socialism and extolling the free market as the best way around which to organize a society. At the time, it discredited him completely. Today, with the fall of the USSR and the effective end of the communist/socialist state, Hayek does indeed seem like a visionary. His theories have finally been embraced by mainstream economists and his work is extolled by world leaders. In this first-ever biography, Alan Ebenstein lifts the figure of Hayek from the shadows that surrounded him to take the true measure of his accomplishment. In looking at his life, Ebenstein also discusses his major works : The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty (1960), Law, Legislation and Liberty (1973-1979), and The Fatal Conceit (1988). This is a monumental piece of work about one of the great thinkers of our time and promises to be the standard work on Hayek for some time to come.

Friedrich August von Hayek, though largely unrecognized during his lifetime, is now regarded as a visionary. This biography of his life also discusses his works: "The Road to Serfdom", "The Constitution of Liberty" (1960), "Law, Legislation and Liberty" (1973-1979), and "The Fatal Conceit" (1988).

Autorentext
Alan Ebenstein

Klappentext
This book tells the story of one of the most important public figures of the twentieth century. It is the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian economist who became, over the course of a remarkable career, the great philosopher of liberty in our time. In this richly detailed portrait, Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of a visionary thinker, from Hayek's early years as the scholarly son of a physician in fin-de-siecle Vienna on an increasingly wider world as an economist and political philosopher in Londom, New York, and Chicago. Ebenstein gives a balanced, integrated account of Hayek's extordinary diverse body of work, from his fist encounter with the free market ideas of mentor Ludwig Von Mises to his magisterial writings in later life on the legal, political, ethical, and economic requirements of a free society. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1974, Hayek's vision of a renewed classical liberalism-of free markets and free ideas in free societies-has taken hold in much of the world. Alan Ebanstein's clearly written account is an essential starting point for anyone seeking to understand why Hayek's ideas have become the guiding force of our time. His illuminating portrait of Hayek the man brings to new life the spirit of a great scholar and tenacious advocate who has become, in Peter Drucker's words, "our time's preeminent social philosopher."

Inhalt
Introduction * Part I: War 1899-1931 * Family * World War I * University of Vienna * New York * Mises * Part II: England 1931-1939 * LSE * Robbins * Keynes * Monetary and Business Cycle Theory * Capital * International Gold Standard * Socialist Calculation * "Economics and Knowledge * Part III: Cambridge 1940-1949 * The Abuse and Decline of Reason * Methodology and Epistemology * The Road to Serfdom * Celebrity * Mont Pelerin Society * Psychology * Popper * Part IV: America 1950-1962 * Divorce and Remarriage * University of Chicago * Committee on Social Thought * Mill * The Constitution of Liberty * Influence * Friedman * Part V: Law, Legislation and Liberty 1962-1974 * Freiburg * Liberty and Law * Marx, Evolution, and Utopia * Government and Morals * Historian of Ideas * Salzburg * Part VI: Nobel Prize 1974-1992 * Laureate * Later Monetary Thinking and Seldon * Thatcher * Opa * Bartley * The Fatal Conceit * Neustift am Wald * "Universal Order of Peace" * Chronology of Hayek's Major Works

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