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

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

哈耶克(Friedrich A. Hayek)被认为是20世纪杰出的经济理论家之一，他在经济学之外的工作和他在经济学内的工作一样多。在长达几十年的职业生涯中，他在心理学、政治哲学、思想史和社会科学方法论等不同领域都做出了贡献。《哈耶克传》的编辑布鲁斯·卡尔德威尔像其他人一样了解哈耶克的思想，通过这本书，他为我们提供了这位重要的社会理论家的第一本完整的学术传记。

考德威尔首先为理解哈耶克的思想提供了必要的背景，追溯了十九世纪末维也纳出现的奥地利经济学派——一种在相互竞争的思想学派中形成的独特分析。在书的第二部分，考德威尔遵循哈耶克从标准的奥地利学派假设开始，逐渐发展他的独特视角的道路，不仅是经济学，而且广泛的社会现象。第三部分，考德威尔对哈耶克的观点进行了评价，并在结语部分对哈耶克的观点进行了深刻的估计，这有助于我们澄清和重新审视20世纪经济学领域的变化。

随着哈耶克思想的成熟，他对主流经济学的发展越来越持批判态度:他的著作越来越与主流经济学背道而驰，并以惊人的——有时看似矛盾的——方式发展。考德威尔非常适合解释哈耶克思想的复杂演变，他在这里的分析非常出色，令人印象深刻地将哈耶克置于更广阔的知识背景中，揭示了他思维中经常出现的困难转折，并展示了他的经济思想如何成为他对其他社会科学的想法的信息。

《哈耶克传》将被视为近几十年来发表的关于这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.

作者简介

布鲁斯·考德威尔，北卡罗来纳大学格林斯博罗分校经济系乔·罗森塔尔杰出教授，《超越实证主义:二十世纪的经济方法论》一书的作者。他是经济学会历史的前任主席和F. A.哈耶克文集的总编辑，由芝加哥大学出版社合作出版。

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.