Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part VI, Good Dictators, Sovereign Producers and Hayek's "Ruthless Consistency"

F.A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. The multi-volume Hayek: A Collaborative Biography examines the evolution of his life and influence.

This sixth volume examines Hayek's neoliberal policy agenda, the demise of the socialist system, the Coase Theorem and the rise of Russia of the Oligarchs. In addition to describing Hayek's 1976 trip to Australia, these chapters examine Hayek legacy in relation to George Orwell, A. C. Pigou and Andres Breivik.

Robert Leeson has been a prolific contributor to the Schools of Economic Thought literature for a quarter of a century. He is ranked joint 17th with Paul Samuelson based on the number of published journal articles included in the ECONLIT database of the American Economic Association. His articles have appeared in the Economic Journal, Economica, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, History of Political Economy and elsewhere. He is also a prolific op-ed columnist and economic commentator for a variety of newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle and the Australian Financial Review. In a 2005 column in the San Francisco Chronicle he predicted the global financial crisis.

1. Introduction; Robert Leeson
2. The Battle of Ideas: Neoliberal Economics and Politics in the 20th Century; Philip Plickert
3. Hayek, Orwell, and The Road to Serfdom. Andrew Farrant 12,454
4. Pigou and the Pigouvian Legacy; Rogério Arthmar
5. Hayek and the Demise of the Socialist System; Yuri N. Maltsev
6. Hayek in Australia, 1976; Rafe Champion
7. Hayek and Coase Travel East: Privatization and the Experience of Post-socialist Economic Transformation; Kiryl Haiduk
8. Anders Breivik, Fascism and the Neoliberal Inheritance; Tad Tietze