20 Academic Life at LSE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I A Viennese Youth
5. Introduction 19
6. 1 A Fin- de- Siècle Wedding 21
7. 2 Family Life 30
8. 3 At School 45
9. 4 Austrian Politics and Anti- Semitism 57
10. 5 At War 69
11. Part II A Broadening of Horizons
12. Introduction 87
13. 6 Back at Home in Postwar Austria 89
14. 7 The University of Vienna 103
15. 8 The Peripatetic Student 117
16. 9 Mises and the Geistkreis 140
17. 10 Changes of Scene 156
18. 11 The Trip to America 167
19. Part III The Making of an Economist
20. Introduction 195
21. 12 Return to Vienna 197
22. 13 Hella Joins the Family 216
23. 14 At the Institute for Business Cycle Research 226
24. 15 The Young Academic 241
25. Part IV Hayek in 1930s England
26. Introduction 271
27. 16 Hayek Comes to LSE 273
28. 17 The Encounter with Keynes 291
29. 18 Defending Economic Theory and Interpreting Hitler 307
30. 19 Socialism and Knowledge 318
31. 20 Academic Life at LSE 334
32. 21 The Battle for Young LSE Minds 364
33. 22 Hayek and Austria 382
34. 23 Domestic Affairs 399
35. 24 The Hayek Family Debates Politics 414
36. Part V Fighting the Spirit of the Age
37. Introduction 435
38. 25 Liberalism: its adversaries and allies 437
39. 26 Hayek and London Go to War: the abuse and decline of reason 464
40. 27 Cambridge 493
41. 28 A Sixpence Penguin Volume: the road to The Road To Serfdom 516
42. 29 Scientism and Popper 542
43. 30 The Publication(s) of The Road to Serfdom 563
44. Part VI Changing Worlds
45. Introduction 587
46. 31 War’s End 591
47. 32 Postwar Austria 615
48. 33 Mont Pèlerin 1947 642
49. 34 Hayek Looks for a Job 675
50. 35 1949— Hayek’s Annus Horribilis 696
51. 36 Hayek versus Hayek 710
52. Acknowledgments 731
53. References 735
54. Index 807