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Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part X: Eugenics, Cultural Evolution, and The Fatal Conceit: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics

Autor Robert Leeson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 dec 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 the post-war economic order. Darker areas of Hayek’s thought are also explored, including the influence of eugenics on his thought and his support for radical right-wing dictatorships in South America.
 Leeson concludes this volume with a collection of chapters written by eminent scholars of Hayek. These chapters cover subjects as diverse as Hayek’s influence on scholars of Darwinian evolution, his views on psychology, and cultural evolution. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319617138
ISBN-10: 3319617133
Pagini: 502
Ilustrații: VII, 498 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Fighting to prevent the ‘world from being made safe for democracy.- 2. Eugenics and the Austrian Third and Fourth Generation.- 3. Das Hayek Problem and Solution. 4. The Austrian Shadow and ‘The Slogan of Liberty.’. 5. Hayek’s ‘More Effective Form’ Eugenics?.- 6. Background to the Eugenics Movement and Influences on Friedrich Hayek.- 7. Eugenics and American Economics in the Interwar Years: The Case of Thomas Nixon Carver.- 8.Economists and Eugenics: Progressive Era Racism and its (Jewish) Discontents.- 9. The Evolution of Hayek’s Ethics.- 10. 'Dictatorial Democracy,’ the Four Habsburg Estates, and ‘The Ethical Foundations of a Free Society.’.- 11. Beyond Darwinism—Examining the Hayek-Imanishi dialogues.- 12. Hayek, Evolution and Imanishi.- 13. Crossing Paths: On Hayek’s Darwinian Evolutionism.

Notă biografică

Robert Leeson has published numerous articles in journals including 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.

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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 the post-war economic order. Darker areas of Hayek’s thought are also explored, including the influence of eugenics on his thought and his support for radical right-wing dictatorships in South America.
 Leeson concludes this volume with a collection of chapters written by eminent scholars of Hayek. These chapters cover subjects as diverse as Hayek’s influence on scholars of Darwinian evolution, his views on psychology, and cultural evolution. 

Caracteristici

Extensive use of archival material Contributions from several well-known Hayek scholars Comprehensive discussion of Hayek's influence and influences

Recenzii

'This is an interesting and unusual volume ... There is a great deal of useful information in this book.' - Professor Emeritus John King, La Trobe University, Australia
'A unique contribution to the existing literature on Hayek... Leeson has to be credited with providing many details about the establishment and development of the Austrian School of Economics. He also provides a vast amount of information about a number of nineteenth and twentieth century theorists who contributed to the development of the discipline of economics. His explanation of the relationship between Hayek and Mises is very informative, particularly with regards to some of the specific agreements and disagreements they had with one another.' - Filip Birsen, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 2014; Volume 21, Issue 1.
'This collective biography is an excellent resource for those interested in, or working on, the career and thought of Friedrich Hayek. In particular it provides a good deal of information regarding Hayek's relationship with other intellectuals and will serve as an important starting point for further research exploring their influence upon his work. Finally, the collection of chapters work well with one another in a way that achieves the goal, outlined by Leeson, of describing, interpreting and integrating Hayek's life, belief and philosophy...
[The study of the relationship between Hayek and William Warren Bartley III] certainly provides a fascinating and colourful account of the personal life and career of this often troubled but apparently brilliant man, who Karl Popper called the best young philosopher he had taught ... Leeson does excellent work here using a range of archival sources. The Hayek, Popper and Lakatos papers are all drawn upon as is the Harvard Crimson and other lesser looked at sources. This will be of interest to anyone attempting to gain an insight into Hayek's attitude to the communist threat and brings to life his time at Cambridge in the 1940s.' - Sean Irving, conomia History / Methodology / Philosophy 2014. Read the full review at: http://oeconomia.revues.org/901