Hayek

Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule ‘not to be concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on public opinion.’ However, evidence suggests that he was a party political operative with ‘free’ market scholarship being the vehicle through which he sought – and achieved – party political influence.

Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed eighty years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day.
As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not.

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.

Esiste una relazione tra due autori come Michel Foucault e Friedrich von Hayek caratterizzati da universi di pensiero apparentemente così distanti? In questo libro si cerca di mostrare come un accostamento sia possibile. Se l’interpretazione biopolitica del mercato data da Foucault, in cui l’attore sociale è primariamente definito dal paradigma razional-utilitaristico dell’homo œconomicus, denota grande distanza dal pensiero di Hayek, è sul tema del “governo dei poteri” che i due finiscono per incontrarsi. Per entrambi, infatti, il potere è una costante delle relazioni umane e, prima di essere concettualizzato all’interno di forme giuridico-politiche, viene esercitato nello scambio. Il mercato teorizzato da Hayek e le relazioni di potere in Foucault rappresentano ambiti decisionali policentrici..

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.