Hayek Introduction (27 results)

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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Nice book. Same ISBN and year, cover art is different. There are a few check marks in some margins.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 4th Printing. 352 pages. Pages bent at the corner on the front and back. Possible light liquid stains on small cluster of pages. Size: 5 x 7. Freedom and the Free Market.

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Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Glued binding. xlii, 274 p. Occasional footnotes. Bibliographical Note. Index. Introduction by Milton Friedman. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Friedrich Hayek (8 May 1899 - 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and . penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." Hayek was a major social theorist and political philosopher of the twentieth century, and his account of how changing prices communicate information which enables individuals to co-ordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics, leading to his Nobel Prize. Hayek spent most of his academic life at the London School of Economics (LSE), the University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg. He was the first recipient of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize in 1984. He also received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 from President George H. W. Bush. "A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century." Friedrich Hayek (8 May 1899 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and frequently referred to as F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism. The Road to Serfdom is a book written between 1940 and 1943 by Austrian-born economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek, in which he "[warns] of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning." He further argues that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism inevitably leads to a loss of freedom, the creation of an oppressive society, the tyranny of a dictator, and the serfdom of the individual. Hayek challenged the general view among British academics that fascism (including National Socialism) was a capitalist reaction against socialism. He argued that fascism, National Socialism and socialism had common roots in central economic planning and empowering the state over the individual. Since its publication in 1944, The Road to Serfdom has been an influential and popular exposition of market libertarianism. The Road to Serfdom was to be the popular edition of the second volume of Hayek's treatise entitled "The Abuse and Decline of Reason",[4] and the title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville on the "road to servitude". The book was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944, during World War II, and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it "that unobtainable book", also due in part to wartime paper rationing. It was published in the United States by the University of Chicago Press in September 1944 and achieved great popularity. At the arrangement of editor Max Eastman, the American magazine Reader's Digest published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling The Road to Serfdom to reach a wider popular audience beyond academics. The Road to Serfdom has had a significant impact on twentieth-century conservative and libertarian economic and political discourse, and is often cited today by commentators. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition [stated]. Later printing, 1997.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Stiff book, unmarked but for name to front endpaper and 3 tiny margin ticks.; 184 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 498 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1963. PP xxvii, 366; [v], 367-784 viii, 615pp. B&W plate in each volume. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill took thirty years to complete and is acknowledged as the definitive edition of J.S. Mill and as one of the finest works editions ever completed. Mill's contributions to philosophy, economics, and history, and in the roles of scholar, politician and journalist can hardly be overstated and this edition remains the only reliable version of the full range of Mill's writings. Each volume contains extensive notes, a new introduction and an index. Books and unclipped jackets are in excellent condition with no inscriptions. PLEASE NOTE: heavy books so extra postage will be needed for non-UK orders.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 464 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Small format hardcover in jacket looks unread faint even toning. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Second Printing June 1938, 293 pp. RARE in either the 1st or 2nd printings, and especially so in dust jacket. Very Good Plus, slight browning to cloth at spine ends, in Very Good dust jacket, spine browned, chipping at spine ends and fold corners. Although no indication in the book, from the collection of noted economist George J. Stolnitz, with his scholarly annotations in pencil at margins of Appendix A only from pages 245-290. F. A. Hayek is the most eminent of the modern Austrian economists, and a founding board member of the Mises Institute. Hayek shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974 with Gunnar Myrdal, for their work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First British Edition. 209 pages. Bibliography. Index. Hayek aims ". to work out certain implications of generally accepted facts or assumptions in order to use them as an explanation of the central problem of the nature of mental phenomena." - from Preface. Prior owner's signature atop front free endpaper, otherwise book very clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear to dark green cloth-covered boards. Binding tight. Price-clipped dust jacket, lacking several chips and tanned at spine, is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Machlup B-10, Cody & Ostrem B-10.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Sensory Order: An Inquiry Into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology Mental Phenomena.

Hardcover. Reprint [1802]. Octavo, 368 pages. In Very Good condition. Greenish/yellow spine with black lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear, and light bumping to spine. Textblock has very light soiling along the tail end of page 125-126, and a pencil mark on page 62. Shelved in Room A. 1399155. Special Collections.

Hard Cover. First Edition. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited 1954). Publisher's blue boards with gilt spine lettering. A former owner's neat name and address to the front free end-paper and several highlighting marks inside the text otherwise a really fine copy. No dust wrapper. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited 1954). Publisher's blue boards with gilt spine lettering. Slight sunning to the spine otherwise a clean and tight VG+ copy in a near fine slightly spine-toned dustwrapper which, importantly, is NOT price-clipped (as most copies seem to be). The dustwrapper is priced 10s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). First UK Edition of this important collection of essays edited and with an introduction by Fredrich Hayek argues that early capitalism in 19th-century Britain was better for workers, both financially and socially, than the period prior to the Industrial Revolution. Consists of a collection of essays by Ashton, Jacker, de Jouvenel and Hutt that seeks to prove that the vast majority of historical criticism about the Industrial Revolution and its impact on workers was fundamentally flawed. In his introduction Hayek points out that the general misery of a bad crop yield may have been easier to tolerate emotionally than the individual injustice of a single worker cast aside by an impersonal system. Here, the authors argue that capitalism actually provided workers with greater opportunity and financial stability than they had experienced under the previous system. Together, these essays take a broader view of capitalism and examine the plight of workers as a group, ultimately showing the Industrial Revolution as having a very positive social benefit, even for the poor. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 498 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

First edition thus. Small 8vo. lxix, [1, blank], [2], 207, [1, blank] pp., with a 8 pp. publisher's prospectus loosely inserted at rear. Original orange printed wrappers, edges untrimmed (contents clean and entirely unopened; extremities slightly worn with a few tiny nicks and minor creasing, front cover with heavy partial offsetting and long closed tear to along top edge, another long closed tear at foot of front joint with small loss to spine, notwithstanding a nice example of this rare and fragile publication). Jena, Gustav Fischer. A German edition of Richard Cantillon's foundational Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en General, translated by Hella Hayek (née von Fritz) (1901-1960), the first wife of Friedrich August von Hayek, and with an introductory essay and commentary throughout by Hayek himself. The translation was Hayek's initiative, intended to be form part of a potential ten-volume book series of classics in monetary theory that would include Thornton's Paper Credit, although the project would never fully come to fruition. Hayek's ugly divorce of Hella in 1950 coincided with his move from the LSE to the University of Chicago and, quite rightly, caused enormous controversy amongst his friends and colleagues, in particular leading to a decisive break between Hayek and Lionel Robbins (see Caldwell & Klausinger, Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950, p. 10). Cody & Ostrem, E-3.