Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

Part III, Fraud, Fascism and Free Market Religion
2014. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-45241-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4974 g

Reihe: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics

F.A. Hayek (1899-1992), the co-leader of the Austrian free market school, embraced the transparently fraudulent assertion made by Donald McCormick, aka Richard Deacon, in The British Connection which accused A.C. Pigou, the co-leader of the Cambridge market failure school, of being a Soviet spy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leeson, R.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: FRAUD 1. Introduction; Robert Leeson 2. History's Greatest Fraud?;Robert Leeson 3. The 'Deacon' McCormick Papers; Ian Sayer 4. Insights from 'Deacon' McCormick's Research Assistant; Nigel West PART II: VICTIMS 5.The Triumph of Rhetoric: Pigou as Keynesian Whipping Boy and its Unintended Consequences; Robert Leeson and Daniel Schiffman 6. Wilfrid Noyce; Stewart Hawkins PART III: EVIDENCE 7. Hayek and 'Deacon' McCormick: Testing Austrian Knowledge; Robert Leeson 8. Professional Assessments; Robert Leeson 9. 'Deacon' McCormick and the Madoc Myth; Howard Kimberley 10. An 'Intelligence' Perspective; Daniel Baldino 11. 2 + 2 = 5; Richard Spence 12. Authoritative Sources: The Information Research Department, Journalism and Publishing; John Jenks 13. The Hitler Diary Fraud; Gerhard Weinberg 14. Sources, and the Use of Knowledge in Society; Robert Leeson

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Baldino, Notre Dame Australia University
Stewart Hawkins
John Jenks, Dominican University, USA
Howard Kimberley, independent historian
Robert Leeson, Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and Adjunct Professor Notre Dame Australia University

Ian Sayer
Daniel Schiffman, Ariel University
Richard Spence, University of Idaho, USA
Nigel West
Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA