All Posts Tagged With: "F. A. Hayek"
Video Interviews with F.A. Hayek Released
Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala just released a video collection of interviews with Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek that were organized by Armen Alchian in 1978. Interviewers include Nobel laureate James Buchanan, Robert Bork, and Thomas Hazlett. A full transcript is also available at the site. This is an exciting and important event. We hope [...]
14Jul2010 | Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Roads to Modernity: the British, French, and American Enlightenments
In 1945, Austrian economist F. A. Hayek delivered a lecture on what he called “Individualism: True and False.” The gist of his argument was that there had been a great deal of confusion and misunderstanding concerning the relationship between the individual and society, both in terms of social theory and practical politics. He juxtaposed what [...]
7Jul2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 2 comments | ContinuedHayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
Bruce Caldwell notes that “challenge” describes the career of Austrian economist F. A. Hayek in several senses. Hayek frequently challenged prevailing ideas. He opposed economic planning when its popularity was at its zenith. He rejected the theories of John Maynard Keynes even as the vast majority of economists and policy makers enthusiastically embraced them. He [...]
2Jul2010 | Gene Callahan | 2 comments | ContinuedFriedrich Hayek
In this first full-length biography of Friedrich Hayek—economist, thinker, Nobel laureate, and political philosopher of the rule of law, liberty, and limited government—Alan Ebenstein offers a veritable intellectual travelogue of Hayek’s journey through life. As a student, we learn, Hayek was mildly socialist. However, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises’s devastating critique, Socialism(1922), “fundamentally altered [his] [...]
30Jun2010 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedMy Favorite Libertarian Books*
I am one of the many millions of beneficiaries of Andrew Carnegie’s public libraries. The one in the small town in which I grew up (Rahway, New Jersey) fed my early interest in books, providing a range of reading matter that was available in no other way, since there were few books at home. That [...]
28Jun2010 | Milton Friedman | 4 comments | ContinuedNuclear Energy Should Be Subsidized?
In a March 5 Los Angeles Times op-ed, “Jump-starting Nuclear Energy,” Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore, who now co-chairs the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, lauds the Obama administration for its decision to “guarantee loans for two advance-design nuclear plants in Georgia.” Nuclear energy diversifies our energy portfolio and doesn’t pollute the air the way fossil [...]
20May2010 | Art Carden and Mike Hammock | 9 comments | ContinuedFEE Influences Volokh Conspiracy
Todd Zwicki gave FEE a nice shout out yesterday over at the Volokh Conspiracy. While none of FEE’s books made his list of “Top 10 most influential“, he does credit us with introducing him to ideas and authors. The list itself is worth taking a look at. Number #1 is “Law, Legislation and Liberty: Volume [...]
25Mar2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Personal Is the Political
As government’s role grows, more and more decisions that we think of as personal are becoming political.
11Feb2010 | Steven Horwitz | 21 comments | ContinuedThe Dangers of the Myth of Merit
In his various chapters and essays on the “mirage” of the concept “social justice,” F. A. Hayek makes a claim that is very often overlooked by those who support the market. He argues that markets generally do not reward “merit.” That is, the people who become wealthy in the marketplace do not do so, for [...]
19Nov2009 | Steven Horwitz | 8 comments | ContinuedRule of Law versus Legislative Orders
Webster’s dictionary defines law as all the rules of conduct established and enforced by the authority, legislation, or custom of a given community or group. Why are there laws in the first place? The most apparent answer is, were there not a particular law, some people would not conduct themselves according to the law in [...]
23Oct2009 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedArrogance
It’s crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It’s even crazier to do it in a few months. Yet that is what some members of Congress presumed to do. They intended, as the New York Times put it, “to reinvent the nation’s health care system.” [...]
23Sep2009 | John Stossel | 17 comments | ContinuedFrom 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four
I’m inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently. Orwell, a man of the “left,” could not remain silent in the face of the horrors of Stalinism. [...]
4Sep2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedHuman Action, 1949: A Dramatic Episode in Intellectual History
A great book, it has been remarked, is like a great castle. It can be viewed from many different angles, each offering a unique perspective. Viewing Ludwig von Mises’s monumental work from the vantage of 2009 permits one to see with great clarity one fascinating aspect of the book–the sheer drama of its emergence at [...]
19Aug2009 | Israel M. Kirzner | 5 comments | ContinuedHuman Action: The 60th Anniversary
We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of a great book, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, by a learned man and a clear thinker: the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. It presents Mises’s understanding–after long years of study and thought–of how the market economy functions. It is a major contribution to human knowledge. Interventionist ideas [...]
19Aug2009 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 2 comments | ContinuedOn the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle, Part I
One of the most vivid memories of my undergraduate years is of sitting for hours in my carrel in the old Polk Library at Nicholls State University and reading F.A. Hayek’s Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle and his Prices and Production. These books on the economic cycles of booms and busts are among the [...]
20Jan2009 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 5 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – December 2008
Is the Welfare State Justified? by Daniel Shapiro Cambridge University Press • 2007 • 309 pages • $80.00 hardcover; $27.99 paperback Reviewed by George C. Leef Americans have lived with the welfare state for so long—more than 70 years—that for most, it is simply a fact of life. Asking whether it is justified would seem [...]
1Dec2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Current Economic Crisis and the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
Richard Ebeling is completing his tenure as the president of FEE. This fall he will teach economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. The current financial crisis emerged out of an economic boom that began in 2003 and saw rising stock values, increasing home prices, and high levels of employment and production. The upturn followed [...]
1Jun2008 | Richard M. Ebeling | 4 comments | Continued-
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