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Title: The Essence of Hayek (Hoover Press Publication) by Chiaki Nishiyama, Kurt Leube ISBN: 0-8179-8011-3 Publisher: Hoover Institution Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Summary: One of the most important thinkers of the 20th century
Comment: This collection of essays by Friedrich Hayek provides a great overview of his thought. The essays include early pieces on economic issues, essays on the history of economic thought, psychology, epistemology, political theory, and personal reflections. Hayek is best known for "The Road to Serfdom," a cold war anti-socialist tract which I consider his least interesting work. In this collection one discovers the Hayek who developed the analysis of how the diffuse nature of information in society reveals on the one hand why socialism failed, and on the other why entrepreneurship and creativity are critical to the well-being of society. His essay "Competition as a Discovery Procedure," included in this volume, should be required reading on college campuses across the nation. His essay "Why I Am Not a Conservative" provides a clear distinction between the views of a classical liberal (of which Hayek is perhaps the best 20th century examplar) vs. those of a conservative. Because "liberals" in the U.S. have been hostile to free enterprise and because "conservatives" have been relatively supportive of it in the U.S., the classical liberal position has become an esoteric oddity known only to a few. For those of us who believe that the most powerful basis for a just and flourishing society may be found in classical liberalism, its relative obscurity in popular perception is a serious tragedy in the history of thought. There is no better single author from who one can learn an intelligent statement of contemporary classical liberalism than F.A. Hayek. This volume is a comprehensive, digestible introduction to his thought.
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Title: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fred Block ISBN: 080705643X Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter ISBN: 0061330086 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 December, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by Max Weber ISBN: 0195004620 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1958 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim, Lewis Coser, W. D. Halls ISBN: 0684836386 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim, Karen E. Fields ISBN: 0029079373 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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