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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"An unbeholden case for Friedrich Hayek, twenty-first-century political influencer. The publication of The Road to Serfdom in 1944 was both an intellectual watershed and, forever after, a source of blistering political division. The book's championing of individualism and classical liberalism-and its derision of government interference in the free-market economy-made it, and its author Friedrich Hayek, lightning rods for evergreen political feuds...
Author
Publisher
Universe Books
Pub. Date
1985, c1983
Description
Nobel Prize-winner F. A. Hayek is one of the great thinkers of the Twentieth century, but up to now there has been no book for the non-specialist that describes his ideas and explains their significance. Eamonn Butler's clear, systematic, perceptive study fills this gap. Starting with a short survey of Hayek's life, Dr. Butler goes on to analyze all the main elements in his thought under six basic headings: Understanding How Society Works; The Market...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle...
Author
Series
Tuttle twins volume 5
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
2016
Description
"A twisted tale of unintended consequences unfolds! History abounds with examples of government officials making decisions, well-intentioned or otherwise, that harm others. Unfortunately, these unintended consequences are never anticipated, and rarely considered once they occur. As the Tuttle twins find in their latest adventure, central planning can ruin people's lives. Nobel prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek's famous book The Road to Serfdom comes...
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