Eamonn Butler’s excellent short study of Hayek’s economics and social philosophy is now available on the internet as a pdf document.  The book is Hayek:  His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time.

Socialism hot and cold is alive and well in America and continues its long march through America’s institutions.  The latest conquest is the America Presidency — Barack Obama has spent his whole life soaking in the religion and ideals of socialists both hot and cold, as he reveals to us in his memoir and as he shows us in his political associations from his days working with Acorn, Bill Ayers and the Democrat Socialists for America to his current staffing of the White House with all variety of leftists, hot, cold and just right.

Well, Americans who believe in private property and Constitutional order rather than law-less expediency in service to leftist power politics are counter attacking against the Obama revolution — and at the point of the spear are dozens of authors, among them these:

Arthur Brooks, The Battle:  How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future.

Chuck Norris & Mark Karis, DONT TREAD ON US:  Signs of a 21st Century Political Awakening.

Dick Morris, 2010 — Take Back America:  A Battle Plan.

Jason Mattera, Obama Zombies:  How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation.

Stephen Moore, How Barack Obama is Bankrupting the U. S. Economy.

Michael Graham, That’s No Angry Mob, That’s My Mom:  Team Obama’s Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans.

Various authors, Encounter Broadsides Against Obama.

Aaron Klein, The Manchurian President:  Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists.

Christopher Horner, Power Grab:  How Obama’s Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America.

Next Gingrich, To Save America:  Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine.

Joshua Muravchik, Obama’s Radical Transformation of America:  Year One.

Pamela Geller, The Post-American Presidency:  The Obama Administration’s War on America.

Michell Malkin, Culture of Corruption:  Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies.

Don Fredrick, The Obama Timeline:  From his Birth in 1961 Through his First 100 Days in Office.

Ken Blackwell & Ken Klukowski, The Blueprint:  Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency.

Sean Hannity, Conservative Victory:  Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda.

Steve Forbes, How Capitalism Will Save Us:  Why Free People and Free Markets Are The Best Answer in Today’s Economy.

Timothy Carney, Obamanomics:  How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses.

Matthew Spalding, We Still Hold These Truths:  Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future.

Peter Schweizer, Architects of Ruin:  How Big Government Liberals Wrecked the Global Economy.

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More Kindle edition books by or about F. A. Hayek here.

Amazon is brimming over with new books on Friedrich Hayek and his ideas:

• Hayek versus Marx by Eric Aarons.
• Hayek and the Natural Law by Erik Angner.
• F. A. Hayek by A. J. Tebble.
• Popper, Hayek and the Open Society by Calvin Hayes.
• The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order edited by William Butos.
• The Neo-Liberal State by Raymond Plant
• Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition edited by Andrew Farrant.
• Classical Liberalism and International Relations Theory: Hume, Smith, Mises, and Hayek by Edwin van de Haar.
• The Cambridge Companion to Hayek edited by Edward Feser.
• Socialism After Hayek by Theodore Burczak.
• Entrepreneurship, Money And Coordination: Hayek’s Theory of Cultural Evolution edited by Jurgen Backhaus.
• Hayek’s Challenge:  An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek by Bruce Caldwell.
• The Political Sociology of Freedom:  Adam Ferguson and F. A. Hayek by Ronald Hamowy.
• Hayek and Human Rights:  Foundations for a Minimalist Approach to Law by John Touchie.

New in books, The Science of Liberty:  Democracy, Reason and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris.

New in books — The Path to Tyranny:  A History of Free Society’s Descent into Tyranny by Michael Newton.

The Mises Institute has made a free PDF edition of F. A. Hayek’s book Individualism and Economic Order available for download here.  The collection includes some of the most influential articles every written in economics.

Table of Contents:

1. 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

IX.   Socialist Calculation II:  The Competitive “Solution”

X.  A Commodity Reserve Currency

XI.  The Ricardo Effect

XII. The Economic Conditions of Interstate Federalism

Watch the video.  Read the article.  Quotable:

the main issue with Schiff seems to be that he hasn’t changed his tune — and it isn’t a pleasant tune to listen to. He thinks the “phony economy” of the U.S. is headed for even harder times. He believes that the crisis-fighting measures coming out of Washington are merely delaying the inevitable, debasing the dollar and loading future taxpayers with huge debts.

Peter Schiff is the author of Crash Proof:  How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse.  His new book Crash Proof 2.0:  How to Profit from the Economic Collapse is due out in September.

Watch the smash YouTube video “Peter Schiff was Right” here.

Jeffery Tucker describes the difficult process of untangling the copyrighted and public domain works of Friedrich Hayek recently undertaken by the Mises Institute, and he goes on to explains how a deal struck between the U. of Chicago Press & Liberty Fund has suddenly unlocked all sorts of rare Hayek gems for a broader popular audience:

.. among the tethered texts, there was the additional problem that the publisher of his collected works – the University of Chicago Press – pumped out its edition in very expensive hardbacks that were designed to sell to tax-funded libraries making purchases on an inelastic demand curve. This is not exactly a great plan for getting the word out!

Well, in time, the Liberty Fund managed to strike a deal with Chicago. Liberty Fund has been putting out uniform editions of the collected works of Hayek in a form that is actually affordable by you and me [in the $8 - $14 range]. This means an opening up of Hayek – not a complete opening but very good steps in this direction. (They are not yet online, and thus available to students, scholars, and libertarians the whole world over.)

The latest book in this series is The Trend of Economic Thinking. Of all the volumes in the collected works, this one contains material that is most rare, essays that have been published for the first time, translated for the first time, or appeared in places that were so obscure that it would have taken years of dedicated searching to snag a copy.

Here we find a Hayek that will completely dazzle you – an old world intellectual of high principle, broad reading, and rock-solid scholarly discipline. He writes essays on giants like Bastiat, Hume, Smith, Cantillon, Mandeville, and Thornton, among many others.

One essay at the beginning of the book intrigues me very much. It is a lecture that he gave students in Britain in 1944. They were studying economics. He effectively preached a sermon to them. He urged them not to look for success in their careers but rather to look at the task of an economist as a vocation. He warned that progress in economics is not like progress in the natural sciences. In the hard sciences, progress in praxis follows progress in research. In economics, however, truth is trampled by political trends, and has been for centuries.

He especially warned against seeking popularity, since that nearly always means seeking favor with political establishments – which, he says, necessarily compromises science. He is not urging that political establishments be more favorable to economics. In fact, he says that would be even worse. Economics is and must remain a monastic-style vocation in which research and advocacy be completely separated from the vicissitudes of public opinion. An economist who seeks popularity is dooming himself as an intellectual with integrity.

Click on the picture above for links to more titles in the Liberty Fund / U. of Chicago paperback edition of F. A. Hayek’s Collected Works or click here.

Friedrich Hayek’s 1972 classic A Tiger by the Tail is now available for download here (pdf) or here (pdf).  The new edition is a joint publication of the IEA and the Mises Institute.  The book is a collection of Hayek’s writings on money, business cycles, and John Maynard Keynes compiled and essentially co-written by Sudha Shenoy.

You can buy the book for the bargan price of $12.00 here.

His new book is due to ship any day.  I’d guess the book will be in the Amazon top 5 before the end of the week.

Read Sowell’s column on his new book here.

Reserve your copy now.