"This volume is an attempt to shed light on my family's life-or-death decision of the summer of 1944 and on a grateful immigrant's struggle to earn a Ph. D. in economics in America in the 1950s." - Page [5]

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...

Introduction -- Randolph County -- Oberlin -- Hopkins -- Wesleyan-Oberlin -- Indiana -- Syracuse -- Exile -- The National Civic Federation -- Wisconsin labor history -- Multitasking -- The Wisconsin idea -- The Commission on Industrial Relations -- Shattered illusions -- The dominant class --...