Fortunes of Liberalism

<p>In this new collection of essays, F.A. Hayek traces his intellectual roots to the `Austrian school' of economics and links it to the modern rebirth of classical liberal or `libertarian' thought. There is much new interesting material here for scholars of Hayek: essays on Hayek's early life and on the intellectual climate of Vienna in the early part of the twentieth century; Hayek's opening address to the inaugural meeting of the Mont Pélerin Society and other material from the period when Hayek was playing his part in the revival of liberal thought; Hayek's views on his teachers and on other leading figures in the Austrian school.<br>This is the fourth volume of <em>The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek</em> and the third to appear. This series provides a new standard edition of Hayek's writing - complete, newly ordered and comprehensively annotated. Much of the material in this volume is either previously unpublished or previously unavailable in English.</p> Introduction, Peter G. Klein; Part I The Austrian School of Economics; prologueI Prologue: The Economics of the 1920s as Seen from Vienna; Chapter 1 The Austrian School of Economics; Chapter 2 Carl Menger (1840–1921); Chapter 3 Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926); Chapter 4 Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973); Chapter 5 Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950); Chapter 6 Ewald Schams (1899–1955) and Richard von Strigl (1891–1942); Chapter 7 Ernst Mach (1838–1916) and the Social Sciences in Vienna; Chapter 8 Coda: Remembering My Cousin Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951); Part II The Fortunes of Liberalism; prologueII Prologue: The Rediscovery of Freedom: Personal Recollections; Chapter 9 Historians and the Future of Europe; Chapter 10 The Actonian Revival: On Lord Acton (1834–1902); Chapter 11 Is There a German Nation?; Chapter 12 A Plan for the Future of Germany; Chapter 13 Opening Address to a Conference at Mont Pèlerin; Chapter 14 The Tragedy of Organised Humanity: de Jouvenel on Power; Chapter 15 Bruno Leoni (1913–1967) and Leonard Read (1898–1983);