This book explores the life and work of Austrian-British economist, political economist, and social philosopher, Friedrich Hayek. Set within a context of the recent financial crisis, alongside the renewed interest in Hayek and the Hayek-Keynes debate, the book introduces the main themes of...

1 -- Introduction -- 2. Tocqueville’s “New Political Science” as a Correction of The Federalist -- 3. “The Monetary Link": Tocqueville on the Second Bank of the US and Liberal Political Economy -- 4. Tocqueville on the Mixed Blessing of Liberal Learning: Higher Education as Subversive...