Socialism and War: Essays, Documents, Reviews

by F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell

Overview

In the essays in this volume Hayek contributed to economic knowledge in the context of socialism and war, while providing an intellectual defense of a free society. The connection between the two topics is illuminated through essays containing some of Hayek’s contributions to the socialist-calculation debate, writings pertaining to war, and the cult of scientific economic planning from the late 1930s and 1940s.

F. A. Hayek (1899–1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and one of the principal proponents of classical liberal thought in the twentieth century. He taught at the London School of Economics, the University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg.

Bruce Caldwell is Research Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the current general editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865977433
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/27/2009
Series:	The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek , #10
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of Vienna, University of London, University of Chicago, and University of Freiburg.

Bruce Caldwell is research professor of economics and the director of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the general editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, also published by the University of Chicago Press. 

Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword
Introduction
Part I. Market Socialism and the Socialist Calculation Debate
1. The Nature and History of the Problem
Addendum: Review of Planwirtschaft und Verkehrswirtschaft
Foreword to Brutzkus, Economic Planning in Soviet Russia
2. The Present State of the Debate
3. Socialist Calculation: The Competitive 'Solution'
4. The Economics of Planning
Part II. The Economics and Politics of War
5. Pricing versus Rationing
6. The Economy of Capital
7. Documents Relating to the War
Part III. Planning, Freedom, and the Politics of Socialism
8. Freedom and the Economic System
9. Freedom and the Economic System [1939]
10. Planning, Science, and Freedom
11. The Intellectuals and Socialism
Appendix: Hayek's Reviews of the Literature
Editor's Acknowledgments
Name Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

This 10th volume of his complete works documents economist Hayek's (1899-1992) lonely battle against socialism during the 1930s and 1940s. The material includes his debates with the market socialists, chiefly in British academic journals of the 1930s; his responses to the onset of World War II, mostly as short articles in weeklies and in book reviews; and later academic papers examining the relationship between economic planning and freedom. An appendix presents many of the reviews of the literature on capitalism and the varieties of socialism he wrote during the period.

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