- Publish date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Inst of Economic Affairs
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CitationLiberty and the News
Lord Acton
Acton's dictums on power and freedom strongly inform Hayek's warnings against state authority.
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CitationDas Kapital
Karl Marx
Serves as the primary ideological target for Hayek's critique of socialist planning.
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
Cited for warnings regarding democratic despotism and the subtle loss of individual liberty.
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Serves as a foundational economic text for Hayek's arguments on spontaneous order and market mechanisms.
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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Hayek draws heavily on Mill's classical liberal defense of individual freedom and warnings against state coercion.
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The Good Society
Walter Lippmann
Explicitly cited for its critique of totalitarian trends and defense of liberalism in the 1930s.
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
Influences Hayek's skepticism toward central planning and radical social engineering.
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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Ludwig von Mises
Provides the underlying economic calculation problem argument that Hayek expands upon.
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The Managerial Revolution
James Burnham
Cited by Hayek regarding the shift of power toward centralized economic planners and technocrats.
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CitationThe German Record
William Ebenstein
Cited in analyzing the intellectual roots of National Socialism in Germany.
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes
Referenced in discussions concerning European economic instability and planning policies.
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CitationThe Great Society
Graham Wallas
Referenced in relation to modern social structures and psychological factors in politics.
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