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    Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue

    By F. A. Hayek

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    The crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the iron curtain, and the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" all owe a tremendous debt to F. A. Hayek. Economist, social and political theorist, and intellectual historian, Hayek passionately championed individual liberty and condemned the dangers of state control. Now Hayek at last tells the story of his long and controversial career, during which his fortunes rose, fell, and finally rose again.

    Through a complete collection of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches and a wide selection of interviews, Hayek on Hayek provides the first detailed chronology of Hayek's early life and education, his intellectual progress, and the academic and public reception of his ideas. His discussions range from economic methodology and the question of religious faith to the atmosphere of post-World War I Vienna and the British character.

    Born in 1899 into a Viennese family of academics and civil servants, Hayek was educated at the University of Vienna, fought in the Great War, and later moved to London, where, as he watched liberty vanish under fascism and communism across Europe, he wrote The Road to Serfdom. Although this book attracted great public attention, Hayek was ignored by other economists for thirty years after World War II, when European social democracies boomed and Keynesianism became the dominant intellectual force. However, the award of the Nobel Prize in economics for 1974 signaled a reversal in Hayek's fortunes, and before his death in 1992 he saw his life's work vindicated in the collapse of the planned economies of Eastern Europe.

    Hayek on Hayek is as close to an autobiography of Hayek as we will ever have. In his own eloquent words, Hayek reveals the remarkable life of a revolutionary thinker in revolutionary times.

    "One of the great thinkers of our age who explored the promise and contours of liberty....[Hayek] revolutionized the world's intellectual and political life"—President George Bush, on awarding F. A. Hayek the Medal of Freedom

    F. A. Hayek, recipient of the Medal of Freedom 1991 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of the libertarian philosophy. Hayek is the author of numerous books in economics, as well as books in political philosophy and psychology.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2012
    ISBN9780226321202
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    • 4/5
      The format of this "autobiographical dialogue" is quite interesting: after a relatively short introduction, passages from an unpublished Hayek memoir alternate with relevant questions chosen from eight different interview sources. Obviously, choosing answers from eight interviews conducted at different times in Hayek's life could be misleading, and the editors' discretion shaped this book a great deal. But the result is still an engaging take on Hayek "in his own words".The book is not as useful to scholars as it could be, though. Although the source of each question is identified in broad terms, the bibliographic information is incomplete. It's not even clear what year each question was asked. I would like to see a longer book that presents the material in a way that's more useful for scholars, though it's still enjoyable for what it is.
    • 3/5
      Here’s one book said to be by F. A. Hayek where you are spared this author’s annoying habit of continually listing what comes next, and is in every way a smooth read, but it isn’t really a book by Hayek. It starts with 35pages of introduction by Stephen Kresge (who is very fond of puns and allusions), and is from then on self-biographical notes by Hayek said to be given W. W. Bartley, interspersed primarily by taped conversations with same Bartley, but also by snippets (only a few) from interviews made by five other men. That is the 170 page book, but for a set of photos of Hayek and a transcript of a radio debate, both around the middle of the book.This W. W. Bartley is said by Bruce Caldwell and others to have manipulated the old Hayek and to have inserted his own ideas into work published under Hayek’s name. One indication of this should be Hayek’s strange infatuation in old age with ideas of Karl Popper, which Bartley helped develop - and well, Popper pops up often enough here.Maybe that is groundless gossip, but gossip is also important to the compilers of text suitable for this book. The socialist Harold Laski was a compulsive liar we are told, and the head of the LSE, Lord Beveridge was an ignorant fool whose book on employment was actually written by Nicholas Kaldor, but Lord Keynes – strangely - comes off lightly, at least as a person. An easy read as said, and some notable ideas are presented too, I note on page 146, regarding the Austrian business cycle theory: “…since then, so much of the credit expansion has gone to where government directed it that the misdirection may no longer be overinvestment in industrial capital but may take any number of forms.” (Interview with Jack High UCLA, not dated). Which is a suitable thought with a recent housing boom-bust, and anti-Austrians finding a lack of abandoned half-built industrial sites to prove the Austrians right.