Klappentext: In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-siècle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, political philosopher, and leading...

Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired "free" market has adopted "The Slogan of Liberty" - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed "knowledge"...