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In 1945 LIFE magazine peers into the future: “Why did the liberal philosophy which once supported [the forward looking] state of mind deteriorate? First, because it could not reconcile its humanitarian beliefs with its laissez-faire economics. After it abandoned laissez-faire it could not logically decide where, short of socialism, to stop. To define the stopping . . . → Read More: NOSTRADAMUS: LIFE MAGAZINE ON LIBERALISM IN 1945
F. A. Hayek’s most important books in economics are free for download from Google in both a Google web edition and in PDF format, including Individualism and Economic Order, The Pure Theory of Capital, Choice in Currency, A Tiger by the Tail, and Prices and Production, including Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle, among other . . . → Read More: HAYEK ECON BOOKS FREE FOR DOWNLOAD FROM GOOGLE
The game: take a sentence or two of Hayek’s clause and qualification ridden Germanic prose, and turn it into a 144 character twitter. Example. Here’s a brief passage from Hayek 1976 essay “Socialism and Science” posted a few days ago in the comments by Richard Ebeling: “A society in which everyone is organized as a . . . → Read More: THE HAYEK TWITTER GAME
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Here’s the core of Stephen Marglin’s “Two Cheers for Hayek” argument, justaposing the claims of market coordinated local knowledge against the claims of community. In sum, “we have enough, let’s slow down”:
For half a century, we monetary economists have focused overwhelmingly on the inflation/disinflation cycle. If we said monetary policy was too easy at some point, we were thinking of the dangers of inflation. If recessions resulted from monetary tightening, the motive was disinflation. I believe the result of the global financial crisis will be a . . . → Read More: QUOTE OF THE DAY — CREDIT CYCLES & FINANCIAL CYCLES
Paul Krugman proudly tells us he can’t bring himself to learn any economics produced before he was a graduate student and written in plain English — and he’s constantly proving the case with crashingly ignorant discussion of economic history and the history of economic thought. Krugman has combined his patent ignorance in these two fields . . . → Read More: PAUL KRUGMAN, YOUR INCOMPETENCE IS SHOWING
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Economist John Cochran explains the significance of Hayek’s macroeconomics for understanding the boom of the ’00s’ and ongoing bust of the ’10s.
April 15-17, Arlington, VA.
Hayek speaking in 1983 at the 33rd Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau. The video contains many excellent photos of Hayek participating at these meetings over the years. Hayek happily reports on his sense of the vindication of long held views from his recent reading of Ernst Mayr’s landmark work The Growth of Biological . . . → Read More: VIDEO — HAYEK SPEAKING ON “EVOLUTION AND SPONTANEOUS ORDER”
An amazing collection of works. The collection does not include Hayek’s extensive library of books on monetary economics, which Hayek had sold in 1938. And here is the pdf copy of Hayek’s very rare 1778 2nd edition of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, mentioned in the video — Volume 1 and Volume 2. . . . → Read More: VIDEO — A TOUR OF HAYEK’S PERSONAL LIBRARY AT THE U. OF SALZBURG
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