Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part IX: The Divine Right of the 'Free' Market

Front Cover
Robert Leeson
Springer, Oct 4, 2017 - Business & Economics - 420 pages
F. A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. This multi-volume biography examines the evolution of his life and influence.

In this ninth volume of Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek, a variety of well-known contributors discuss Hayek's views on the divine right of the market taking democratic and free-market principles into account.
 

Contents

What Is Hayek?
1
FaithBased Economics
63
Hayek Mises and the Iron Rule of Unintended Consequences
131
Accelerating the Climate of Hate The Austrian School of Economics Hayek and The New Hate
174
Christian Reconstructionism and the Austrian School of Economics
191
The Genealogy of Jaime Guzmáns Subsidiary State
248
Hayek Thatcher and the Muddle of the Middle
263
Economics and Religion What Is the Relationship? A Case Study of Nordic Social Democracy
285
Clerical Fascism Chile and Austria
305
Clerical Fascism Portugal Spain and France
356
Austria the Past and AntiSemitism
371
Index
405
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2017)

Robert Leeson has published numerous articles in top class journals (such as the Economic Journal and Economics and History of Political Economy). In addition to writing and editing nineteen books, he is the co-editor (with Charles Palm) of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman. He has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA since 2005, National Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution since 1995 and Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Australia University since 2008. He has held other visiting positions at Cambridge University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University and the University of Western Ontario.

Bibliographic information