Orwellian rectifiers, Mises' "evil seed" of Christianity and the "free" market welfare state

Robert Leeson

Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired "free" market has adopted "The Slogan of Liberty" - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed "knowledge" - as the epigone Godfather, Hans Sennholz, insists - what validity do its policy recommendations have? Should those who falsely claim to have PhDs be tax-funded as "Post-Doctoral Fellows" and "Professors"? This volume examines the consequences of the ‘free’ market colonisation of economics - climate change, financial crises and the corruption of academic discourse.

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Year of publication:	[2018] ; 1st edition 2018
Authors:	Leeson, Robert
Published in:	Hayek: a collaborative biography ; part 11
Publisher:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:	Friedrich A. von Hayek \| Ökonomen \| Economists \| Ökonomische Ideengeschichte \| History of economic thought \| Österreich \| Austria
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [deposit.dnb.de] ; Description [springer.com]

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Extent:	vi, 548 Seiten 21 cm x 14.8 cm
Series:	Archival insights into the evolution of economics
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Biografie ; Biography
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-3-319-77427-5 ; 3-319-77427-1 ; 978-3-319-77428-2
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-319-77428-2 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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