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Part I: Crony Capitalists and Their ‘Free’ Market School Of Economics -- 1. ‘Free’ Market ‘Knowledge’ -- 2. The Deception Plans of the ‘Aristocratic Revolution’: ‘von’ Hayek I, II and III -- 3. The Deluding and the Deluded -- 4. Summoned by Bells to Aristocratic Service -- 5....
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This latest volume in the Collaborative Biography of Hayek examines the interconnectedness between Hayek’s (1944) The Road to Serfdom and George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949); his relationship with Karl Popper and Karl Polanyi; and the work of Wilhelm von...
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On 9 August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment; on 29 April 1975, the United States scuttled from their Embassy in Saigon - optics that were interpreted as defeats for the ‘International Right’. Yet in 1975, Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party; and in...
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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 -...
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