Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

Daniel Baldino, Notre Dame Australia UniversityStewart HawkinsJohn Jenks, Dominican University, USAHoward Kimberley, independent historianRobert Leeson, Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and Adjunct Professor Notre Dame Australia UniversityIan SayerDaniel Schiffman, Ariel UniversityRichard Spence, University of Idaho, USANigel WestGerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

'This volume is special. It examines the relationship between Hayek and Donald McCormick, a fantasy historian ... who falsified his way through thousands of pages of British and European history ... After taking the hatchet to Donald, in chapter after chapter, Fraud, Fascism and Free Market Religion is now set to become the point of reference for anyone who has the task of eliminating Donald McCormick from their preferred area of history ... the editor Robert Leeson has gathered a series of writers together who had some experience of McCormick or who have at least eye-balled his work in their own disciplines ... The overall effect is pleasing. We get a well-rounded view of McCormick and perhaps, understanding him a bit better, we might start to ask what on earth encouraged an intelligent, articulate and, by many accounts, charming individual to act in such a donkeyish fashion. There are two points in Fraud, Fascism and Free Market Religion where an author demonstrates that McCormick lied. The first is the crucial episode where McCormick argued that Hayek's enemy Pigou was a Soviet spy. The second is the chapter by Howard Kimberley looking at one McCormick book, that on Madoc [proto-Columbian Welsh discoverer of America, sic], and showing how McCormick invented or manipulated sources.' Review on www.strangehistory.net.

• PART I: FRAUD 1. Introduction; Robert Leeson 2. History's Greatest Fraud?;Robert Leeson 3. The 'Deacon' McCormick Papers; Ian Sayer 4. Insights from 'Deacon' McCormick's Research Assistant; Nigel West PART II: VICTIMS 5.The Triumph of Rhetoric: Pigou as Keynesian Whipping Boy and its Unintended Consequences; Robert Leeson and Daniel Schiffman 6. Wilfrid Noyce; Stewart Hawkins PART III: EVIDENCE 7. Hayek and 'Deacon' McCormick: Testing Austrian Knowledge; Robert Leeson 8. Professional Assessments; Robert Leeson 9. 'Deacon' McCormick and the Madoc Myth; Howard Kimberley 10. An 'Intelligence' Perspective; Daniel Baldino 11. 2 + 2 = 5; Richard Spence 12. Authoritative Sources: The Information Research Department, Journalism and Publishing; John Jenks 13. The Hitler Diary Fraud; Gerhard Weinberg 14. Sources, and the Use of Knowledge in Society; Robert Leeson