Hayek: A Collaborative Biography E-Book

Robert Leeson

• Herausgeber: Springer International Publishing
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired ‘free’ market has adopted ‘The Slogan of Liberty’ - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science?  If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed ‘knowledge’ - as the epigone Godfather, Hans Sennholz, insists - what validity do its policy recommendations have?  Should those who falsely claim to have PhDs be tax-funded as ‘Post-Doctoral Fellows’ and ‘Professors’?  

This volume examines the consequences of the ‘free’ market colonisation of economics – climate change, financial crises and the corruption of academic discourse