Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part X: Eugenics, Cultural Evolution, and The Fatal Conceit /

This tenth part of Robert Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek explores Hayek’s thought on the free market and democracy. Using an unparalleled array of archival materials, Leeson reconstructs Hayek’s thinking as the notorious economist and his acolytes set about resha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leeson, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Fighting to prevent the ‘world from being made safe for democracy
  • 2. Eugenics and the Austrian Third and Fourth Generation
  • 3. Das Hayek Problem and Solution. 4. The Austrian Shadow and ‘The Slogan of Liberty.’. 5. Hayek’s ‘More Effective Form’ Eugenics?
  • 6. Background to the Eugenics Movement and Influences on Friedrich Hayek
  • 7. Eugenics and American Economics in the Interwar Years: The Case of Thomas Nixon Carver
  • 8.Economists and Eugenics: Progressive Era Racism and its (Jewish) Discontents
  • 9. The Evolution of Hayek’s Ethics
  • 10. 'Dictatorial Democracy,’ the Four Habsburg Estates, and ‘The Ethical Foundations of a Free Society.’
  • 11. Beyond Darwinism—Examining the Hayek-Imanishi dialogues
  • 12. Hayek, Evolution and Imanishi
  • 13. Crossing Paths: On Hayek’s Darwinian Evolutionism.