Hayek's challenge
Subtitle: an intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek
By: Bruce Caldwell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Hayek, Friedrich A. von -- 1899-1992; Economists -- Austria -- Biography; Economics
Genres: Biography
Description: Caldwell discusses the background for understanding Hayek's thought, the history of political philosophy, and an estimation of how Hayek's insights can help in clarifying the changes in the field of economics during the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-472) and index
Table of contents: title: The Austrian school and its opponents-historicists, socialists and positivists. Menger's principles of economics; title: The German historical school; title: The methodenstreit; title: Max Weber and the decline of the historical school; title: Positivism and socialism; title: Hayek's journey. Hayek in Vienna; title: Monetary theory and methodology; title: Hayek at the London school of economics; title: Some methodological debates of the 1930s; title: "Economics and knowledge" and Hayek's transformation; title: The abuse of reason project; title: Individualism and the sensory order; title: Rules, orders and evolution; title: Hayek's challenge. Journey's end-Hayek's multiple legacies; title: Epilogue: a meditation on twentieth-century economics