Friedrich Hayek: A Biography

About this book

In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life works and legacy of the visionary thinker from his early years in fin-de-sicle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist political philosopher and leading public intellectual. Ebenstein gives a balanced integrated account of Hayeks diverse body of work from his first encounter with free market ideas to his magisterial writings in later life on the legal political ethical and economic requirements of a free society.