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This book gives readers insight into F A Hayek's life and ideas. The detailed chronology depicts Hayek's early life and education, his intellectual progress, and the academic and public reception of his ideas through a series of oral history interviews. Hayek's own autobiographical notes are included.

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Austrian economist Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992) wrote autobiographical notes for several years beginning in 1945. These are combined with excerpts from interviews, and the transcript of a 1945 radio broadcast as a way of letting him tell about his own life and intellectual development. The arrangement is chronological. The volume supplements his collected works, published by the University of Chicago Press. Reference & Research Book News February 2009

Austrian economist Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992) wrote autobiographical notes for several years beginning in 1945. These are combined with excerpts from interviews, and the transcript of a 1945 radio broadcast as a way of letting him tell about his own life and intellectual development. The arrangement is chronological. The volume supplements his collected works, published by the University of Chicago Press. - Reference & Research Book News February 2009

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F A Hayek (1899-1992) was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974 and the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and was one of the leading Austrian economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century.

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