Title: The Fortunes of Liberalism
Subtitle: Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom
Description: In this new collection of essays, F.A. Hayek traces his intellectual roots to the Austrian school' of economics and links it to the modern rebirth of classical liberal or libertarian' thought. There is much new interesting material here for scholars of Hayek: essays on Hayek's early life and on the intellectual climate of Vienna in the early part of the twentieth century; Hayek's opening address to the inaugural meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society and other material from the period when Hayek was playing his part in the revival of liberal thought; Hayek's views on his teachers and on other leading figures in the Austrian school. This is the fourth volume of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek and the third to appear. This series provides a new standard edition of Hayek's writing - complete, newly ordered and comprehensively annotated. Much of the material in this volume is either previously unpublished or previously unavailable in English.
Subjects: Austrian school of economics, Economics, Free enterprise, Social sciences, Liberalism
People: Ludwig von Mises, Carl Menger, Friedrich von Wieser, Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), Richard von Strigl, Ernst Mach, Ewald Schams