What is the role of human agency in Friedrich Hayek's thought? This volume situates Hayek's writing as it relates to economic organization and activity, particularly to assess what role Hayek assigns to leaders in determining economic progress.

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Sandra J. Peart is Dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, USA.

David Levy is Professor of Economics at George Mason University, USA, and a Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society.

Peart and Levy have co-directed the Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economics since 2000.

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Introduction; Sandra J. Peart & David M. Levy PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. On Hayek's Unsentimental Liberalism; Peter McNamara 2. F. A. Hayek and the 'Individualists'; Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy PART II: CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 3. The Evolution, Evaluation, and Reform of Social Morality: A Hayekean Analysis; Gerald Gaus 4. Hayek and the Conditions of Freedom; Kenneth Minogue 5. F. A. Hayek and the Early Foundations of Spontaneous Order; Emily Skarbek 6. Hayek and the Nomothetes; Christopher S. Martin PART III: HAYEK AND POLICY-MAKING 7. The Control of Engagement Order: Attlee's Road to Serfdom?; Andrew Farrant and Nicola Tynan 8. Hayekian Perspectives on Canada's Economic and Social Reforms of the 1990s; Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis 9. The Conjoint Quest for a Liberal Positive Program: 'Old Chicago,' Freiburg, and Hayek; Ekkehard Köhler and Stefan Kolev 10. Hayek and My Life; Václav Klaus Conclusion: The Hayek Difference; David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart