Individualism and Economic Order

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By Freidrich A Hayek

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Individualism and Economic Order is a collection of essays by Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek that explores the critical issues surrounding free markets and socialist planned economies. Drawing from moral philosophy, social science methods, and economic theory, these writings from the 1930s and '40s highlight ongoing challenges in the economic development of both emerging and formerly socialist nations.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of economics, philosophy, and political science, as well as readers interested in the historical and theoretical foundations of market economics versus socialism.

First published in the 1930s and 1940s, the essays collated in this volume discuss topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory, as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned economies.

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In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned economies. First published in the 1930s and 40s, these essays continue to illuminate the problems faced by developing and formerly socialist countries.

F. A. Hayek, recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, taught at the University of Chicago, the University of London, and the University of Freiburg. Among his other works published by the University of Chicago Press is The Road to Serfdom, now available in a special fiftieth anniversary edition.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226320939

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 1996

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 370g

Pages: 280

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Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Freidrich A Hayek Non-Fiction

About the Author

F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of Vienna, University of London, University of Chicago, and University of Freiburg.