Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

Robert Leeson, University of Notre Dame, Australia and Stanford University, USARobert Scharrenborg, Open University, Leiden University and University of Amsterdam NetherlandsP. Eric Louw, University of Queensland, Australia

• 1. Introduction; Robert Leeson 2. Hayek, Heroism and Hagiography; Robert Leeson 3. Interpreting Hayek: Austrian Civilisation and the Neo-Feudal 'Spontaneous' Order; Robert Leeson 4. History of anti-free market policies in South Africa; P. Eric Louw 5. A Young Man in Vienna - Life in Early 20th Century Austria and its Possible Impact on the Initial Develpment of Hayek's Thought; Robert Scharrenborg 6. Families, Geistkreist and New York; Robert Leeson 7. Trusts, Anti-Trusts, Consumer and Producer Sovereignty; Robert Leeson 8. Recruiting Hayek to the LSE and the Reform Club: why not Mises?; Robert Leeson

“This book represents a significant contribution tothe existing literature on Hayek, as it provides valuable analysis on thedevelopment of Hayek’s economic theory, highlighting largely unknown detailsthat might attract the attention of experts and specialists … . It is also animportant resource for specialists in the history of economic thought, as itconstitutes a significant contribution to the literature pertaining to thedevelopment of the Austrian School of economics, the progress of liberalism,and Hayek’s economic theories.” (Birsen Filip, History of Economic Thought andPolicy, Vol. 2, 2015)