Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

Zusatztext

Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule not to be concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on public opinion. However, evidence suggests that he was a party political operative with free market scholarship being the vehicle through which he sought - and achieved - party political influence. The main purpose of his Mont Pelerin Society had been wholly achieved. Mises promoted Fascists including Ludendorff and Hitler, and Hayekians promoted the Operation Condor military dictatorships and continue to maintain a united front with neo-Nazis. Hayek, who supported Pinochets torture-based regime and played a promotional role in Dirty War Argentina, is presented as a saintly figure.  These chapters place free market promotion in the context of the post-1965 neo-Fascist Strategy of Tension, and examine Hayeks role in the promotion of deflation that facilitated Hitlers rise to power; his proposal to relocate Gibraltarians across the frontier into Fascist Spain; the Austrian revival of the 1970s; the role of (what was presented as) neutral academic data on behalf of the International Right and their efforts to promote Franz Josef Strauss and Ronald Reagan and defend apartheid and the Shah of Iran

Autorenportrait

Robert Leeson has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA since 2005, National Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution since 1995 and Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Australia University since 2008. He has published numerous articles in journals including The Economic Journal and Economics and History of Political Economy. In addition to writing and editing twenty books, he is the co-editor (with Charles Palm) of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman. He has held further visiting positions at Cambridge University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University and the University of Western Ontario.

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