Hayek's Challenge : An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 500 pages

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Imprint:University of Chicago Press

Edition:New ed

ISBN:9780226091938

Published: 6 Dec 2005

Classifications:Biography: business & industry, Economics

Readership:Professional & Vocational

Weight:774g

Dimensions:231 x 153 x 31 (mm)

Pub. Country:United States

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書籍簡介

哈耶克(Friedrich A. Hayek)被認為是20世紀傑出的經濟理論家之一，他在經濟學之外的工作和他在經濟學內的工作一樣多。在長達幾十年的職業生涯中，他在心理學、政治哲學、思想史和社會科學方法論等不同領域都做出了貢獻。《哈耶克傳》的編輯布魯斯·卡爾德威爾像其他人一樣瞭解哈耶克的思想，通過這本書，他為我們提供了這位重要的社會理論家的第一本完整的學術傳記。

考德威爾首先為理解哈耶克的思想提供了必要的背景，追溯了十九世紀末維也納出現的奧地利經濟學派——一種在相互競爭的思想學派中形成的獨特分析。在書的第二部分，考德威爾遵循哈耶克從標準的奧地利學派假設開始，逐漸發展他的獨特視角的道路，不僅是經濟學，而且廣泛的社會現象。第三部分，考德威爾對哈耶克的觀點進行了評價，並在結語部分對哈耶克的觀點進行了深刻的估計，這有助於我們澄清和重新審視20世紀經濟學領域的變化。

隨着哈耶克思想的成熟，他對主流經濟學的發展越來越持批判態度:他的著作越來越與主流經濟學背道而馳，並以驚人的——有時看似矛盾的——方式發展。考德威爾非常適合解釋哈耶克思想的複雜演變，他在這裏的分析非常出色，令人印象深刻地將哈耶克置於更廣闊的知識背景中，揭示了他思維中經常出現的困難轉折，並展示了他的經濟思想如何成為他對其他社會科學的想法的信息。

《哈耶克傳》將被視為近幾十年來發表的關於這位思想家的最重要的著作之一。

Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell—editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek—understands Hayek's thought like few others, and with this book he offers us the first full intellectual biography of this pivotal social theorist.

Caldwell begins by providing the necessary background for understanding Hayek's thought, tracing the emergence, in fin-de-siècle Vienna, of the Austrian school of economics—a distinctive analysis forged in the midst of contending schools of thought. In the second part of the book, Caldwell follows the path by which Hayek, beginning from the standard Austrian assumptions, gradually developed his unique perspective on not only economics but a broad range of social phenomena. In the third part, Caldwell offers both an assessment of Hayek's arguments and, in an epilogue, an insightful estimation of how Hayek's insights can help us to clarify and reexamine changes in the field of economics during the twentieth century.

As Hayek's ideas matured, he became increasingly critical of developments within mainstream economics: his works grew increasingly contrarian and evolved in striking—and sometimes seemingly contradictory—ways. Caldwell is ideally suited to explain the complex evolution of Hayek's thought, and his analysis here is nothing short of brilliant, impressively situating Hayek in a broader intellectual context, unpacking the often difficult turns in his thinking, and showing how his economic ideas came to inform his ideas on the other social sciences.

Hayek's Challenge will be received as one of the most important works published on this thinker in recent decades.

作者簡介

布魯斯·考德威爾，北卡羅來納大學格林斯博羅分校經濟系喬·羅森塔爾傑出教授，《超越實證主義:二十世紀的經濟方法論》一書的作者。他是經濟學會歷史的前任主席和F. A.哈耶克文集的總編輯，由芝加哥大學出版社合作出版。

Bruce Caldwell is the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Century. He is past president of the History of Economics Society and the general editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, copublished by the University of Chicago Press.