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The Cambridge Companion to Hayek

By Edward Feser

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780521849777, 0521849772
Open Library ID
OL22743221M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1508500 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
354\354
Library
Great Science Textbooks
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

F.A. Hayek (1899-1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an 'anti-Marx' who did more than any other recent thinker to elucidate the theoretical foundations of the free market economy. His account of the role played by market prices in transmitting economic knowledge constituted a devastating critique of the socialist ideal of central economic planning, and his famous book The Road to Serfdom was a prophetic statement of the dangers which socialism posed to a free and open society. He also made significant contributions to fields as diverse as the philosophy of law, the theory of complex systems, and cognitive science. The essays in this volume, by an international team of contributors, provide a critical introduction to all aspects of Hayek's thought.

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