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Hayek's Challenge
Bruce Caldwell
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Description for Hayek's Challenge
Paperback. Offers the full intellectual biography of Friedrich A. Hayek - pivotal economic theorist. In this book, the author impressively situates Hayek in a broader intellectual context, unpacking the often-difficult turns in his thinking, and showing how his economic ideas came to inform his ideas on the other social sciences. Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 774.
Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent social theorists of the twentieth century as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell - editor of "The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek" - understands Hayek's thought like few others, and with this book he offers us the first full intellectual biography of this pivotal economic theorist. As Hayek's ideas matured, he became ... Read more
Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent social theorists of the twentieth century as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell - editor of "The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek" - understands Hayek's thought like few others, and with this book he offers us the first full intellectual biography of this pivotal economic theorist. As Hayek's ideas matured, he became ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226091938
SKU
V9780226091938
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About Bruce Caldwell
Bruce Caldwell is the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Century. He is a past president of the History of Economics Society and the general editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, copublished by the University of Chicago ... Read more
Reviews for Hayek's Challenge
"Hayek is fortunate in his biographer. Hayek's Challenge is a success, and Caldwell proves himself capable of presenting Hayek's ideas - in all fields - with both depth and clarity.... Hayek's challenge is worth remembering, and Bruce Caldwell has done a great service by reminding us of it." - Jason Steorts, National Review "Bruce Caldwell's intellectual biography of the great ... Read more