Front Page Authors (by Period) Friedrich August von Hayek

Friedrich August von Hayek

1899 - 1992

About the Author

Hayek was one of the most important free market economists of the 20th century. He was a member of the “Austrian school of economics”, taught at the London School of Economics, wrote extensively on banking and monetary theory, the socialist calculation debate, and the theory of spontaneous orders.

For additional information about Friedrich Hayek see the following:

• in the Forum: Essays on Hayek
• in the Library: The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek
• at our sister website Econlib: the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics entry on Hayek

In The Library:

• introduction: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XII - The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848 Part I (1812)
• introduction: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIII - The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848 Part II (1838)
• foreword: Economics as a Coordination Problem: The Contributions of Friedrich A. Hayek (1977)
• introduction: An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802)
• author: The Intellectual Portrait Series: The Life and Thought of Friedrich A. Hayek (2003)
• author: New Individualist Review (1961)
• author: “Richard Cantillon” (1931)
• introduction: Selected Essays on Political Economy (1848)
• foreword: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1922)
• editor: Toward Liberty: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 1 (1971)
• editor: Toward Liberty: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 2 (1971)
• author: “The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945)