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Taylor and Francis Ltd Essays on Liberalism and the Economy 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Lewis, Paul
Across seventeen volumes to date, the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series has anthologized the diverse and prolific writings of the Austrian economist synonymous with classical liberalism. Essays on Liberalism and the Economy traces the author's long and evolving writings on the cluster of beliefs he championed most: liberalism, its core tenets, and how its tradition represents the best hope for Western civilization. _x000D__x000D_This deft selection includes some of Hayek's most important and famous essays as well as unpublished and lesser-known works. It contains material from almost the entire span of Hayek's career, the earliest from 1931 and the last from 1984. The works were written for a variety of purposes and audiences, and they include-along with conventional academic papers-encyclopedia entries, after-dinner addresses, a lecture for graduate students, a book review, newspaper articles, and letters to the editors of national newspapers. While many are available elsewhere, two have never appeared in print, and two others have not been published in English. _x000D__x000D_The varied formats collected here are enriched by Hayek's changing voice at different stages of his life. Some of the pieces resonate as high-minded and noble; others are less formal. Some see Hayek focus on expounding his own views; others are primarily critiques of the ideas of other prominent thinkers like John Maynard Keynes and John Kenneth Galbraith. All serve to distill important aspects of Hayek's worldview._x000D_ _x000D_
Editor's Introduction Editorial Foreword 1. Liberalism 2. The Transmission of the Ideals of Economic Freedom 3. The Prospects of Freedom 4. The Webbs and Their Work 5. Closing Speech to the 1984 Mont Pelerin Society Meeting 6. 'Free' Enterprise and Competitive Order 7. The Economic Conditions of Inter-state Federalism 8. The Meaning of Government Interference 9. The Economics of Development Charges 10. Effects of Rent Control 11. Economics 12. The Uses of 'Gresham's Law' as an Illustration of 'Historical Theory' 13. The Dilemma of Specialisation 14. Full Employment, Planning and Inflation 15. Inflation Resulting from the Downward Inflexibility of Wages 16. Unions, Inflation, and Profits 17. The Corporation in a Democratic Society: In Whose Interest Ought It to and Will It Be Run? 18. The Non Sequitur of the 'Dependence Effect' 19. What Is 'Social'? What Does It Mean? 20. The Moral Element in Free Enterprise 21. The Principles of a Liberal Social Order 22. The Constitution of a Liberal State 23. The Confusion of Language in Political Thought 24. Economic Freedom and Representative Government 25. The Campaign against Keynesian Inflation 26. The New Confusion about 'Planning' 27. The Atavism of Social Justice 28. Whither Democracy? 29. Socialism and Science 30. Two Pages of Fiction: The Impossibility of Socialist Calculation 31. Letters to The Times, 1931-1981_x000D_