Friedrich Hayek : a biography /
Alan Ebenstein.
- xiii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- War 1899-1931 -- Family -- World War I -- University of Vienna -- New York -- Mises -- England 1931-1939 -- Lse -- Robbins -- Keynes -- Monetary and Business Cycle Theory -- Capital -- International Gold Standard -- Socialist Calculation -- Economics and Knowledge -- Cambridge 1940-1949 -- The Abuse and Decline of Reason -- Methodology and Epistemology -- The Road to Serfdom -- Celebrity -- Mont Pelerin -- Society -- Psychology -- Popper -- America 1950-1962 -- Divorce and Remarriage -- University of Chicago -- Committee on Social Thought -- Mill -- The Constitution of Liberty -- Influence -- Friedman -- Law, Legislation and Liberty 1962-1974 -- Freiburg Liberty and Law -- Marx, Evolution, and Utopia -- Government and Morals -- Historian of Ideas -- Salzburg -- 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. Part I. Part II. Part III. Part IV. Part V. Part VI.
"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 the greatest philosopher of liberty in our time." "In this 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 to his remarkable career as an economist and political philosopher in London, New York, and Chicago. It was an immensely fruitful life, set against two world wars, the Great Depression, the rise of Nazism, and, during his last years, the historic emergence of free market societies from the collapse of Communism. Throughout it all Hayek struggled - in a brilliant circle of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and other intellectuals - to come to grips with the wrenching transformations of the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.