Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

Robert Leeson has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA since 2005, National Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution since 1995 and Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Australia University since 2008. He has published numerous articles in journals including The Economic Journal and Economics and History of Political Economy. In addition to writing and editing twenty books, he is the co-editor (with Charles Palm) of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman. He has held further visiting positions at Cambridge University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University and the University of Western Ontario.

Part I: Hayek's Luck.- 1. 'I have been lucky in this game.' -Robert Leeson.- 2. The Tobacco, Obesity and Fossil Fuel Lobby - 'As Happy as Hell.' -Robert Leeson.- 3. 1-15: Residual reverence towards the Second Estate. -Robert Leeson.- 4. 16-20: Loyal 'intermediaries.' -Robert Leeson.- 5. 21-24: 'I desire to preserve correct relations in public.' Robert Leeson.- 6. 25: Suppression, the dogs that didn't bark, and the emerging Chicago School of Economics. -Robert Leeson.- 7. 31 Conclusions about Hayek's Nineteen Thirty One 'Prediction.' -Robert Leeson.- Part II: Myrdal and Machlup.- 8. The Saving/Investment Explanation of Business Cycles in Hayek and Myrdal: Similarities and Differences. -Adrián de León Arias.- 9. Machlup and Hayek: Filation of Ideas and Ambition. Carol M. Connell.- Part III: The Chicago School of Economics.- 10. Friedman and Hayek's Converging Ideas on Freedom and the State. Birsen Filip.- 11. Chicago Economics in the Making, 1926-1940: A Further Look at United States Interwar Pluralism. Luca Fiorito and Sebastiano Nerozzi.