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"...

This volume, Part XII, examines the "free" market Use of Knowledge in Society; examines the foundations of "free" market educational credentials; and asks whether those funded by the tobacco industry and the carbon lobby should be accorded "independent policy expert" status.

In this volume, a variety of well-known contributors discuss the process by which Hayek and others attached a "divine right" argument to the "free" market. Topics range from Hayek's philosophical influences, to the profound change his ideas wrought on the political and economic landscape.