Alan Ebenstein

Friedrich Hayek: A Biography (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This biography tells the story of one of the most important public figures of the twentieth century, Friedrich Hayek. Here 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 London, New York, and Chicago. Ebenstein gives a balanced, integrated account of Hayek's extraordinary 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 Ebenstein'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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466886766
• Artikelnr.: 42135408

Autorenporträt

Alan Ebenstein is a professor of economics and political theory. He is the author of several books, including a biography of Friedrich Hayek.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: WAR 1899-1931
Family
World War I
University of Vienna
New York
Mises
PART II: ENGLAND1931-193
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