New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Palgrave Macmillan, c2013.

xviii, 247 p. : il. ; 22 cm.

Jepson studies in leadership

List of figures and tables. -- Preface: F. A. Hayek: social theorist and philosopher of liberty. -- Acknowledgments. -- Introduction. -- Part I. Foundations. -- 1. On Hayek's unsentimental liberalism. -- 2. F. A. Hayek and the "individualists". -- Part II.Contributions to political economy in theory and practice. -- 3. The evolution, evaluation, and reform of social morality: a Hayekian analysis. -- 4. Hayek and the conditions of freedom. -- 5. F. A. Hayek and the early foundations of spontaneous order. -- 6. Hayek and the Nomothetes. -- Part III. Hayek and policy-making. -- 7. The control of engagement order: Attlee's road to serfdom?. -- 8. Hayekian perspectives on Canada's economic and social reforms of the 1990s. -- 9. The conjoint quest for a liberal positive program: "old Chicago," Freiburg, and Hayek. -- 10. Hayek and my life. -- Conclusion: the Hayek difference. -- Notes on contributors. -- Index.

Tomado de la pasta: "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 he assigns to leaders in determining economic progress. Peart and Levy explore the scope for policy makers leading the economy through crisis, how much agency policy makers should assume, and the leadership role that economists should legitimately play in the development and implementation of a new economic policy. Hayek held that economists should take center stage in terms of advocating economic policy but his was quite a different sort of advocacy. He disagreed with some of his contemporaries on what economic policies were best suited to promote economic expansion and stability, seeing economic aggregation as fraught with methodological difficulties and, therefore, that no scientist or policy maker had the wherewithal to direct market transactions. The volume examines the nature of these disagreements along with a number of other themes that characterize Hayek's lifelong work." --

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