Robert Leeson: 7 books
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part X: Eugenics, Cultural Evolution, and The Fatal Conceit
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This tenth part of Robert Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek explores Hayek’s thought on the free market and democracy. Using an unparalleled array of archival materials, Leeson reconstructs Hayek’s thinking as the notorious economist and his acolytes set about reshaping...
by Robert Leeson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Alec’s world changes when he meets Abu the genie! Disasters were leading two-nil on Alec’s disaster-triumph scorecard when he slipped into the vacant factory lot, with Ginger Wallace hot on his heels, ready to destroy him. There was a catastrophe awaiting him at home too, and of course school...
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part XII: Liberalism in the Classical Tradition, Austrian versus British
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
F.A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. The multi-volume Hayek: A Collaborative Biography examines the evolution of his life and influence.
Two concepts of civilization revolve around power – should...
Economics, Economists and Expectations
From Microfoundations to Macroapplications
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2004
The concept of rational expectations has played a hugely important role in economics over the years. Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this book makes use of primary sources and previously unpublished material from such figures as Hicks, Hawtrey and Hart. The accounts of the '
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part VII, 'Market Free Play with an Audience': Hayek's Encounters with Fifty Knowledge Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book is the seventh volume in this series* *which explores the life of Nobel Price-winning economist F.A. Hayek (1899-1992). The volume uses archival material, juxtaposed with Hayek’s published work to challenge the existing perceptions of his life and thought. It examines the methods by...
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part XI: Orwellian Rectifiers, Mises’ ‘Evil Seed' of Christianity and the ‘Free’ Market Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired ‘free’ market has adopted ‘The Slogan of Liberty’ - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed ‘knowledge’...
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part VIII: The Constitution of Liberty: ‘Shooting in Cold Blood’, Hayek’s Plan for the Future of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2019
This book is the eighth volume in this Collaborative Biography, which explores the life and works of Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek (1899-1992). Making extensive use of archival material and Hayek’s own published writings, it presents a strong challenge to perceptions of the economist’s...