Journal articleAdvances in Austrian Economics · January 1, 2025
Abstract – The paper offers a number of vignettes surrounding Friedrich A. Hayek’s receipt of the Nobel Prize. It examines Hayek’s life before he got the prize, describes the events in Stockholm, and offers a summary of the main themes of his Prize Lecture ...
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Journal articleResearch in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology · January 1, 2025
Review essay on Farrant, A. (Ed.). (2011). Hayek, Mill, and the liberal tradition. Routledge: London. ISBN: 978-0415779340. $130.00. ...
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Journal articleJournal of Economic Literature · September 1, 2020
This paper revisits Friedrich Hayek's book, The Road to Serfdom, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of its publication. Though the book is well-known, its arguments are often mischaracterized. The paper traces the origins of the book, noting the various peop ...
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Journal articleHistory of Political Economy · March 1, 2016
This article offers a revisionist account of certain episodes in the development of F. A. Hayek’s thought. It offers a new reading of his 1937 paper, “Economics and Knowledge,” that draws on unpublished lecture notes in which he articulated more fully the ...
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Journal articleReview of Austrian Economics · September 13, 2015
F. A. Hayek took two trips to Chile, the first in 1977, the second in 1981. The visits were controversial. On the first trip he met with General Augusto Pinochet, who had led a coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973. During his 1981 visit, Hayek gave ...
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Journal articleStudies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason Text and Documents · January 1, 2013
“The studies of which this book is the result have from the beginning been guided by and in the end confirmed the somewhat old-fashioned conviction of the author that it is human ideas which govern the development of human affairs,” Hayek wrote in his note ...
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Journal articleJournal of Private Enterprise · December 12, 2011
In this paper I will reflect on the relationship, both personal and intellectual, between John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek. Although they were intellectual rivals, the history of their relationship is more complex and nuanced than the usual characte ...
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Journal article · January 1, 2011
Friedrich A. Hayek taught at the University of Chicago from the fall semester of 1950 through 1962, a period during which the second, or new, Chicago School of Economics was formed. The question naturally arises: What was his role in its formation? A quick ...
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Journal articleJournal of Economic Methodology · December 1, 2009
The paper is a reminiscence of T.W. Hutchison by way of a retrospective view of our debate over the relationship between the ideas of Karl Popper, F. A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises on methodology. Our dispute was part of a larger debate over the relevance ...
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Journal articlePublic Choice · April 1, 2008
The major themes of Gordon Tullock's 1996 book The Organization of Inquiry are identified. Tullock's treatment of the philosophy of science is criticized, as is his explanation for the backwardness of the social sciences relative to the natural sciences. T ...
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Journal article · January 1, 2006
There are two elements of Hayek’s background that justify our considering him an Austrian economist: first, that he was raised and went to university in Vienna in the first three decades of the twentieth century, and second, that when he finally decided on ...
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Journal articleCritical Review · January 1, 2006
Hayek's case for the limits of economic agents' knowledge does not, as Greg Hill seems to suggest, imply that government should be in the business of engaging in countercyclical fiscal policy or paternalistic corrections of people's pursuit of "imaginary g ...
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Journal articleEuropean Journal of Political Economy · December 1, 2005
The paper reviews the history of the socialist calculation debate leading up to the publication of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, and then uses that information to address various claims made by Rosser and Levy, Peart, and Farrant in their symposium papers. ...
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Journal articleCritical Review · January 1, 2005
In his biography of Karl Popper, Malachi Hacohen brilliantly reconstructs the development of Popper's ideas through 1946, correcting many errors regarding the sequence of their emergence. In addition he recreates Popper's Vienna and provides insights into ...
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Journal articleJournal of Bioeconomics · December 9, 2004
Though F.A. Hayek is principally known for his work in economics, he also made contributions, both positive and critical, to the field of psychology. His most important piece in the latter field is his 1952 book, The Sensory Order. This paper attempts to l ...
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Journal articleCambridge Journal of Economics · January 1, 2004
This is a reply to Geoffrey Hodgson's Comment on an earlier paper by Caldwell (Hodgson on Hayek: a critique). Though certain areas of agreement are noted, differences in interpretation concerning Hayek's views on the Malthus-Darwin relationship, on cultura ...
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Journal articleJournal Des Economistes Et Des Etudes Humaines · January 1, 2002
The paper challenges Joseph Salerno’s recent revisionist account in “The Place of Human Action in the Development of Economic Thought” of the relationship between Friedrich von Wieser and F.A. Hayek and of their views on equilibrium theory. The paper argue ...
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Journal articleCambridge Journal of Economics · January 1, 2001
In his book Economics and Evolution, Geoffrey Hodgson offers a detailed critique of F. A. Hayek's writings on cultural evolution. Certain aspects of Hodgson's treatment appear to be inaccurate. This paper criticises Hodgson's critique. ...
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Journal articleReview of Austrian Economics · January 1, 2000
F. A. Hayek's writings on cultural evolution are an essential part of his work, and some aspects of these writings (e.g., his defense of group selection) have generated considerable controversy. This historical paper traces the circumstances that led Hayek ...
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Journal articleJournal of Economic Literature · December 1, 1997
I have received many helpful comments on this paper from participants at the History of Economics Society meetings at the University of British Columbia, at seminars given at the University of Georgia, at the Austrian Colloquium at New York University, at ...
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Journal articleReview of Political Economy · March 1, 1989
The purpose of this article is to offer a preliminary assessment of post-Keynesian methodology. This is undertaken by initially defining and developing the methodological perspective known as critical pluralism. It is argued that post-Keynesians might well ...
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