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Socialism and War: Essays, Documents, Reviews (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Book 10) Kindle Edition

by F. A. Hayek (Author), Bruce Caldwell (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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This volume of writings by the eminent economist documents his thought on socialism and war during the dark decades of the 1930s and 1940s.

Throughout the twentieth century socialism and war were intimately connected. The unprecedented upheavals wrought by the two world wars and the Great Depression provided both opportunity and impetus for a variety of socialist experiments. Socialism and War presents F.A. Hayek’s insight into these topics as it evolved over the course of decades.

Opening with Hayek’s arguments against market socialism, the volume continues with his writings on the economics of war, many in response to the proposals made in John Maynard Keynes’s famous pamphlet, How to Pay for the War. The last section presents articles that anticipated The Road to Serfdom, Hayek’s classic meditation on the dangers of collectivism. An appendix contains a number of topical book reviews written by Hayek during this crucial period, and a masterful introduction by the volume editor, Bruce Caldwell, sets Hayek’s work in context.

Volume ten in The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Socialism and War will interest anyone concerned with the ongoing debates about government intervention in the economy.
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Edited by Caldwell (economics, Univ. of North Carolina), this collection of papers by Hayek, the 1991 Nobel laureate in economics, critiques socialism and state planning in the 1930s and 1940s. Hayek is best known for his popularly written 1944 attack on socialism, The Road to Serfdom. His writings in this volume are fuller and more technical arguments against socialism and state planning, even in wartime, because he considered them inimical to a free society; Hayek also offers a vigorous defense of the free market as the bulwark of both economic and political freedom. His extended, lucidly written introduction (in contrast to his dense style) deals with the debate during the late 19th and early 20th centuries on the merits of socialism. Recommended for academic libraries with large collections in economics.?Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New York
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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.

Reference & Research Book News
August 2009

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009GJQJV0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The University of Chicago Press; 1st edition (September 21, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 21, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Friedrich August Hayek (1899–1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of London, the University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg. His influence on the economic policies in capitalist countries has been profound, especially during the Reagan administration in the U.S. and the Thatcher government in the U.K.

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The essays in Socialism and War (SAW) are first rate. However, you can find most of the essyas from part one in Individualism and Economic Order (IEO). Parts two and three contain essays from Hayek that are hard to find elsewhere. Parts two and three are useful for those who want to dig deeper into Hayek's work, for serious historians of Hayek's economic thought. This is the work that led to Hayek's Road to Serfdom. The second and third parts are also useful for those who want to read up on Hayek quickly- these are as short an easy as Hayek's work gets.

We owe much thanks to Bruce Caldwell for keeping Hayek's work in publication and accessible. This being said, the most important essays here were already available in IEO. Few of us really need both SAW and IEO, but we few who do appreciate his efforts.
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