Hayek

Questo volume – considerato ormai un classico delle scienze sociali – contiene saggi scritti da Hayek nei vent’anni successivi alla Seconda guerra mondiale. Nella prima parte, vengono trattati temi di teoria della conoscenza, carichi di implicazioni etiche e politiche: il problema dei fenomeni complessi, la critica del «costruttivismo», la distinzione tra il razionalismo cartesiano e il razionalismo critico, e così via. Nella seconda parte, vengono delineati i princìpi di un ordine sociale liberale e si individuano gli errori di quegli intellettuali che hanno ceduto alla mitologia collettivistica. La terza parte è invece dedicata al rapporto tra politica ed economia e a tematiche più specificamente economiche, come per esempio il pieno impiego e l’inflazione..

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century.

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 seventh volume, Leeson explores Hayek's encounters with fifty knowledge communities.

This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek’s (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); his relationship with Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi; and the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Mises had a ‘deep emotional attachment’ to the ‘free’ market and Hayek believed that ‘science’ was driven by shallow emotions.

This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek’s (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); his relationship with Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi; and the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Mises had a ‘deep emotional attachment’ to the ‘free’ market and Hayek believed that ‘science’ was driven by shallow emotions.