And what of that shelf of books written on Hayek by other authors? Not a one reviewed or even mentioned in the NY Times Book Review.
Take a look through the NY Times archives and check for yourself.
It's quite true that when hard core free market advocate Henry Hazlitt regularly wrote lead book reviews for the NY Times -- 60 years ago -- a little book by Hayek titled The Road to Serfdom was reviewed in the Times. But that was several generations ago -- and a very, very different NY Times Book review. We haven't seen the likes of that since well before most of us were born. By the time the 1960's came around, the NY Times assigned its review of Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty not to Hazlitt or any other author sympathetic to Hayek and capitalism -- but instead to a hard-core true believing socialist, who not unsurprisingly didn't look with any favor on a book seeking to defend capitalism. And then -- complete blackball.
Posted by Greg Ransom
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