{"title":"F Hayek","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"road-to-serfdom-text-and-documents-definitive-edition-book-f-hayek-9780226320540","title":"ROAD TO SERFDOM: TEXT AND DOCUMENTS--DEFINITIVE EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003eA classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought. Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes. Supplemented with an appendix of related materials and forewords to earlier editions by the likes of Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Friedrich Hayek's enduring masterwork. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49773996966161,"sku":"CIN0226320545VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50469628412177,"sku":"CIN0226320545G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54093596098833,"sku":"GOR015058011","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":54095765537041,"sku":"GOR010251941","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226320545.jpg?v=1750779568"},{"product_id":"studies-on-the-abuse-decline-of-reason-book-f-a-hayek-9780865979079","title":"Studies on the Abuse \u0026 Decline of Reason","description":"\u003cp\u003eF. A. Hayek never published the grand project he conceived in a letter to Fritz Machlup in 1939. As described in the introduction, this work would incorporate intellectual history, methodology, and an analysis of social problems, all aimed at shedding light on the consequences of socialism. He told Machlup that a series of case studies should come first, . . . leading to the fundamental scientific principles of economic policy and ultimately to the consequences of socialism, and the work would form the basis of a systematic intellectual historical investigation of the fundamental principles of the social development of the last hundred years. (Introduction, p. 1)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStudies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e collects the essays that were to be the foundation of that work. The essay Individualism: True and False was written as the introduction to the work. Scientism and the Study of Society provides the case studies, followed by two essays of intellectual history: The Counter-Revolution of Science (his study of the history of scientism in France) and Comte and Hegel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHayek did publish all the works found in this volume, but they had never been gathered in a single work as he originally conceived. Editor Bruce Caldwell has provided translations where they were absent and has revised and corrected the text, and his introduction tells the story of Hayek's greatest unfinished piece of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eF. A. Hayek\u003c\/b\u003e (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and one of the principal proponents of classical liberal thought in the twentieth century. He taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Caldwell\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the current general editor of The Collected Works of F. A. 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Today, as debates rage on over the monetary origins of the current economic and financial crisis, economists are once again paying heed to Hayek's thoughts on the repercussions of excessive central bank interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBusiness Cycles, Part I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBusiness Cycles, Part II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e bring together Hayek's work on what causes periods of boom and bust in the economy. Moving away from the classical emphasis on equilibrium, Hayek demonstrates that business cycles are generated by the adaptation of the structure of production to changes in relative demand. Thus, when central banks artificially lower interest rates, the result is a misallocation of capital and the creation of asset bubbles and additional instability. \u003ci\u003ePart I\u003c\/i\u003e contains his two major monographs on the topic: \u003ci\u003eMonetary Theory and the Trade Cycle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrices and Production.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart II\u003c\/i\u003e assembles twelve of his shorter papers on the topic, covering a period from the 1920s to 1981 and revealing the evolution of Hayek's thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to bringing together Hayek's work on business cycles, these two volumes also include extensive introductions by Hansjoerg Klausinger, placing the writings in intellectual context, including their reception and the theoretical debates to which they contributed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eF. A. 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