Hayek: A Collaborative Biography [electronic resource] : Part XI: Orwellian Rectifiers, Mises' 'Evil Seed' of Christianity and the 'Free' Market Welfare State /
Leeson, Robert.author.
Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired 'free' market has adopted 'The Slogan of Liberty' - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed 'knowledge' - as the epigone Godfather, Hans Sennholz, insists - what validity do its policy recommendations have? Should those who falsely claim to have PhDs be tax-funded as 'Post-Doctoral Fellows' and 'Professors'? This volume examines the consequences of the 'free' market colonisation of economics - climate change, financial crises and the corruption of academic discourse.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Orwellian Rectifiers and the 'Free' Market Welfare State -- 2.The Economic Consequences of Blind Faith -- 3.The Politicization of Academia -- 4.'Financial Considerations' and the 'Free' Academic Market -- 5.'Consistent Doctrine', 'The Morals of the Market', and the 'Filthy Load of Pinks' -- 6.The Fall of Left Utopia and the Rise of 'Free' Market Euphoria -- 7.'Intellectual Orgies' and 'the "Non-Concept" of Education -- 8.Mises' 'Evil Seed' of Christianity -- 9.'German Villains and Austrian Victims' -- 10.Who Lies Behind the 'Free' Market?
Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired 'free' market has adopted 'The Slogan of Liberty' - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed 'knowledge' - as the epigone Godfather, Hans Sennholz, insists - what validity do its policy recommendations have? Should those who falsely claim to have PhDs be tax-funded as 'Post-Doctoral Fellows' and 'Professors'? This volume examines the consequences of the 'free' market colonisation of economics - climate change, financial crises and the corruption of academic discourse.
Economic history.
Welfare economics.
History of Economic Thought/Methodology.
Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.