Die Berliner Mauer stand noch, als die Transformation in Polen schon in vollem Gange war. Wie kam es, dass ausgerechnet das Land der Solidarność-Bewegung zum Vorreiter einer marktradikalen Schocktherapie wurde, die fast überall in östlichen Europa Nachahmer fand? Florian Peters erzählt, wie...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Importance of Hayek and Friedman to the Neo-liberal Concept of Freedom -- 3. The Neo-liberal Concept of Freedom -- 4. Spheres of Government -- 5. The Rise of Neo-liberalism and Tyranny of Corporations -- 6. The Rise of Mass Consumption -- 7.The Rise of Neoliberalism and...

"An unbeholden case for Friedrich Hayek, twenty-first-century political influencer. The publication of The Road to Serfdom in 1944 was both an intellectual watershed and, forever after, a source of blistering political division. The book's championing of individualism and classical...

Capitalism and Antebellum Economic Thought -- Laissez-faire in the American Tradition -- Progress and Poverty: Malthus and Ricardo in America -- The Crisis of Free Society: The Southern and Northern Reactionaries -- An American Political Economy -- Henry Carey, Nature, and the Destiny of Man --...