Individualism and Economic Order

by F. A. Hayek

Overview

A classic collection of writings from a Nobel Prize winner on free markets versus planned economies

In this influential collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned economies. First published in the 1930s and '40s, these essays continue to illuminate the problems faced by economists, planners, government officials, and citizens in the changing, globalized economy of today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226320939
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	06/01/1996
Series:	Midway Reprint Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 40.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of Vienna, University of London, University of Chicago, and University of Freiburg.

Table of Contents

I: Individualism: True and False
II: Economics and Knowledge
III: The Facts of the Social Sciences
IV: The Use of Knowledge in Society
V: The Meaning of Competition
VI: "Free" Enterprise and Competitive Order
VII: Socialist Calculation I: The Nature and History of the Problem
VIII: Socialist Calculation II: The State of the Debate (1935)
IX: Socialist Calculation III: The Competitive "Solution"
X: A Commodity Reserve Currency
XI: The Ricardo Effect
XII: The Economic Conditions of Interstate Federalism