Hayek: A Collaborative Biography [electronic resource] : Part III, Fraud, Fascism and Free Market Religion /
Leeson, R.editor.
F.A. Hayek (1899-1992), the co-leader of the Austrian free market school, embraced the transparently fraudulent assertion made by Donald McCormick, aka Richard Deacon, in The British Connection which accused A.C. Pigou, the co-leader of the Cambridge market failure school, of being a Soviet spy.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Dramatis Personae; Part I Fraud; 1 Introduction; 2 History's Greatest Fraud?; 3 The 'Deacon' McCormick Papers; 4 Insights from one of 'Deacon' McCormick's Research Assistants; Part II Victims; 5 The Triumph of Rhetoric: Pigou as Keynesian Whipping Boy and its Unintended Consequences; 6 Wilfrid Noyce; Part III Evidence; 7 Hayek and 'Deacon' McCormick: Testing Austrian Knowledge; 8 Professional Assessments; 9 'Deacon' McCormick and the Madoc Myth
10 Assessing 'Deacon' McCormick from the Perspective of the Intelligence Community11 Authoritative Sources: The Information Research Department, Journalism and Publishing; 12 Donald McCormick: 2 + 2 = 5; 13 The Fake Hitler Diary; 14 Sources and 'The Use of Knowledge in Society'; Index
Includes index.
F.A. Hayek (1899-1992), the co-leader of the Austrian free market school, embraced the transparently fraudulent assertion made by Donald McCormick, aka Richard Deacon, in The British Connection which accused A.C. Pigou, the co-leader of the Cambridge market failure school, of being a Soviet spy.
Economic history.
Economic theory.
History, Modern.
Economic History.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
History of Economic Thought/Methodology.
Modern History.