Extensive use of archival materialContributions from several well-known Hayek scholarsComprehensive discussion of Hayek's influence and influences

Extensive use of archival material Contributions from several well-known Hayek scholars Comprehensive discussion of Hayek's influence and influences

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Robert Leeson has published numerous articles in journals including the Economic Journal and Economics and History of Political Economy. In addition to writing and editing nineteen books, he is the co-editor (with Charles Palm) of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman. He has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA since 2005, National Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution since 1995 and Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Australia University since 2008. He has held other visiting positions at Cambridge University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University and the University of Western Ontario.

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1. Fighting to prevent the 'world from being made safe for democracy.- 2. Eugenics and the Austrian Third and Fourth Generation.- 3. Das Hayek Problem and Solution. 4. The Austrian Shadow and 'The Slogan of Liberty.'. 5. Hayek's 'More Effective Form' Eugenics?.- 6. Background to the Eugenics Movement and Influences on Friedrich Hayek.- 7. Eugenics and American Economics in the Interwar Years: The Case of Thomas Nixon Carver.- 8.Economists and Eugenics: Progressive Era Racism and its (Jewish) Discontents.- 9. The Evolution of Hayek's Ethics.- 10. 'Dictatorial Democracy,' the Four Habsburg Estates, and 'The Ethical Foundations of a Free Society.'.- 11. Beyond DarwinismExamining the Hayek-Imanishi dialogues.- 12. Hayek, Evolution and Imanishi.- 13. Crossing Paths: On Hayek's Darwinian Evolutionism.