Studies on the abuse and decline of reason

text and documents

F. A. Hayek never published the grand project he conceived in a letter to Fritz Machlup in 1939. As described in the introduction, this work would incorporate intellectual history, methodology, and an analysis of social problems, all aimed at shedding light on the consequences of ...

Business cycles. Part II

In the years following its publication, F A Hayeks pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what was later known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economics are ...

Business cycles. Part I

In the years following its publication, F A Hayeks pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what was later known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economics are ...

Studies on the abuse and decline of reason

text and documents

Ed. Bruce Caldwell. "Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason" is a series of fascinating essays on the study of social phenomena. How to best and most accurately study social interactions has long been debated intensely, and there are two main approaches: the positivists ...

Contra Keynes and Cambridge

essays, correspondence

Contra Keynes and Cambridge is composed of three parts: Part I consists of two essays, the first being a recollection by Hayek of his time at the London School of Economics in the 1930s, followed by his contribution to an early debate about the paradox ...

Hayek on Hayek

an autobiographical dialogue

This book gives readers insight into F A Hayek's life and ideas. The detailed chronology depicts Hayek's early life and education, his intellectual progress, and the academic and public reception of his ideas through a series of oral history interviews. Hayek's own ...

Good money. T.I

The New World

Ed. Stephen Kresge. Hayek's deep interest in the concept of money and its role within the economy is developed in "Good Money, Part I". Consisting of seven of Hayek's most significant monetary writings from the 1920s, this collection focuses on his critique of ...

Good money.T.II

The standard

Ed. Stephen Kresge. This complementary volume provides five additional essays to expand our understanding of Hayek's ideas about money and monetary policy. "Good Money, Part II: The Standard" investigates the consequences of the predicament of composition which led to one of Hayek's most ...

Socialism and war

essays, documents, reviews

Ed. Burce Caldwell. In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defence of a free society. The connection between the two topics is illuminated through essays containing some of Hayek's ...

The trend of economic thinking

essays on political economists and econommic history

Eds. W.W. Bartley III, Stephen Kresge. In this book, Hayek presents many of the figures that influenced the development of his economic thought. The articles range from well-known economists such as Mandeville, Hume, Smith, and Bastiat, to lesser-known figures such as Dupuit and Gossen ...

The fortunes of liberalism

essays on austrian economics and the ideal of freedom

Ed. Peter G. Klein. In this collection of essays, some of which appear here in English for the first time, F A Hayek traces his intellectual roots to the Austrian School. The book also links the Austrian School to the modern rebirth of classical liberal ...