Introductuion -- 1. Adam Smith on self-interest -- 2. Jeremy Bentham on self-interest -- 3. John Stuart Mill on self-interest and the assumption of economic theories -- 4. Leon Walras’ idea of human nature and theory of property: free exchange, communism, and association -- 5. Self-interest in...

The aim of this paper is to consider how the Chicago school of economics influenced the economic thought of Friedrich Hayek in his period of the University of Chicago, where he was a follower of the Committee of Social Thought from 1950 to 1962. This period is well known as “Hayek’s...