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Business Cycles
Part I
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
In the years following its publication, F. A. Hayek’s pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what was later known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over the monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economists are once...
Business Cycles
Part II
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
In the years following its publication, F. A. Hayek’s pioneering work on business cycles was regarded as an important challenge to what was later known as Keynesian macroeconomics. Today, as debates rage on over the monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economists are once...
Contra Keynes and Cambridge
Essays, Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
In 1931, when the young F. A. Hayek challenged the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, sixteen years his senior, and one of the world's leading economists, he sparked a spirited debate that would influence economic policy in democratic countries for decades. Their extensive exchange lasted until...
by F. A. Hayek
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Produced throughout the first fifteen years of Hayek’s career, the writings collected in Capital and Interest see Hayek elaborate upon and extend his landmark lectures that were published as Prices and Production and work toward the technically sophisticated line of thought seen in his later Pure...
by F. A. Hayek
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
F. A. Hayek (1899–1992) was one of the leading voices in economic and social theory, but he also wrote on theoretical psychology, including in the landmark book The Sensory Order. Although The Sensory Order was not widely engaged with by either psychologists or social scientists at the time of publication,...
Good Money, Part 1
The New World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The two volumes of Good Money concentrate on Hayek's work on money and monetary policy. Published in the centenary of his birth, these volumes bring forth some of the economist's most distinguished articles on monetary policy and offer another vital addition to the collection of Hayek's life work.
Good...
by F. A. Hayek
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
In addition to his groundbreaking contributions to pure economic theory, F. A. Hayek also closely examined the ways in which the knowledge of many individual market participants could culminate in an overall order of economic activity. His attempts to come to terms with the “knowledge problem”...
Good Money, Part 2
The Standard
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The two volumes of Good Money concentrate on Hayek's work on money and monetary policy. Published in the centenary of his birth, these volumes bring forth some of the economist's most distinguished articles on monetary policy and offer another vital addition to the collection of Hayek's life work.
Good...
Hayek on Mill
The Mill-Taylor Friendship and Related Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F. A. Hayek was also a prominent scholar of the philosopher John Stuart Mill. One of his greatest undertakings was a collection of Mill’s extensive correspondence with his longstanding friend and later companion and wife, Harriet Taylor-Mill....
Crucibles of Black Empowerment
Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The term “community organizer” was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer wasn’t a serious one, and that it certainly...
A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Contemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the original conditions of such...
Movies That Mattered
More Reviews from a Transformative Decade
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Dave Kehr’s writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr “one of the most gifted film critics in America.” James Naremore thought he was “one of the best writers...
Blood Runs Green
The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln’s. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The...
Exit Zero
Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Winner of CLR James Book Prize from the Working Class Studies Association and 2nd Place for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.
In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the...