Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

Robert Leeson is Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University, US.  He is a prolific researcher whose articles have appeared in the world’s leading general journals such as the Economic Journal and Economica.  On a broad measure of publications, he was ranked joint 17th (with Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson) in the list of the world’s top 500 economists on the basis of the number of journal articles included in the ECONLIT database of the American Economic Association. In addition to editing A.W.H. Phillips’ Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective, Leeson co-edited Milton Friedman’s Collected Writings. This is his 25th book.

• 1.‘Austrian Thought and Fascism’: ‘The victory of Fascism in a number of countries is only an episode in the long series of struggles over the problem of property.- 2. Persuade the intellectuals in the hopes that ultimately they could be converted and transmit my ideas to the public at large.- 3. Hayek and Aristocratic Influence.- 4. Pigouvian Market Failure.- 5. Britain, White Supremacism, and the International Right.- 6. The ‘Free’ Market ‘Emergency’ Demand for ‘Fascism.'.- 7.‘[Italian] Fascism.- 8. Austrian ‘Instincts,’ Serfdom, and Spanish and Portuguese ‘Fascism.