Hayek's challenge : an intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek / Bruce Caldwell.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caldwell, Bruce, 1952-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Hayek, Friedrich A. von > (Friedrich August), > 1899-1992.
Economists > Austria > Biography.
Economics.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xi, 489 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Austrian school and its opponents-historicists, socialists and positivists. Menger's principles of economics
  • The German historical school
  • The methodenstreit
  • Max Weber and the decline of the historical school
  • Positivism and socialism
  • Hayek's journey. Hayek in Vienna
  • Monetary theory and methodology
  • Hayek at the London school of economics
  • Some methodological debates of the 1930s
  • "Economics and knowledge" and Hayek's transformation
  • The abuse of reason project
  • Individualism and the sensory order
  • Rules, orders and evolution
  • Hayek's challenge. Journey's end-Hayek's multiple legacies
  • Epilogue: a meditation on twentieth-century economics.