Ideas on Liberty, April 1st, 2002
Friedrich Hayek
by Alan Ebenstein
St. Martin's Press * 2001 * 403 pages * $29.95
Reviewed by Bettina Bien Greaves
In this first full-length biography of Friedich Hayek-economist, thinker, Nobel laureate, and political philosopher of the rule of law, liberty, and limited government-Alan Ebenstein offers a veritable intellectual travelogue of Hayek's journey through life. As a student, we learn, Hayek was mildly socialist. However, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises's devastating critique, Socialism (1922), "fundamentally altered [his ] outlook." Through continued study, Hayek became an Aus...
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