Since we’re shameless promoters of all things Hayek around these parts, and we’ve all no doubt contributed to improving Amazon’s share price over the years, I decided to sign us up as an Amazon affiliate.
Those of you who’ve been sold on our Hayek advocacy - or who simply aspire to know more than Hevvie Kevvie about the man for whom this site is named - can purchase his books via the links below and actually make us some money. I’ve also tried to write a nifty bit of code that supposedly does the groovy ‘hover’ thing - ie you’ll get a graphic of the book in question and some price info when you run your mouse over the link. I have no idea whether my programming skills are up to snuff on that score.
Anyway, in no particular order, here are my Hayek faves:
1. The Constitution of Liberty
2. The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
3. Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order
4. Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice
5. Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People
6. Capitalism and the Historians
7. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
8. The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology
At some point, I’ll also do a libertarian/classical liberal general reading list with appropriate amazon links - education for fun and profit!
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Links seem to be working, but not the hover thingy. I must have forgotten something.
It may be worth adding “Individualism and Economic Order” to the list as well. (I know that you say the above are your favourite Hayek works, so perhaps it could be added under a separate section on other publications by Hayek?) Among other things, it contains a reprint of his essay “The use of knowledge in society”.
An interesting list. I think I’ll purchase Capitalism and the Historians very soon. I simply detest the manner in which sundry ideas and practices are subsumed into something called ‘capitalism’ or ‘possessive’ individualism. Take your pick, it is really quiet irritating.
It might be worthwhile having commentors here suggesting or adding titles of interest to the list, especially where they have particular expertise.
I’ve been wanting to buy Hayek’s The Sensory Order. So please add it to the list and get the commission.
Will do, Sinkers. I’ll go in and do it now. Just hang fire for a bit.
Link is in there now Sinc. And as DB suggested, I’ll happily post other links in further posts as requested if people have particular faves - and not just Hayek, either. I started with him because the US Amazon store is well-stocked for Hayek titles.
This is a review of The Fatal Conceit.
http://www.the-rathouse.com/hayfatalconreview.html
A review of a collection of papers produced to celebrate The Road to Serfdom after 50 years.
http://www.the-rathouse.com/hayserf.html
Bill Hutt’s paper in “Capitalism and the Historians.” An exposure of the fraudulent Sadler report that maligned the factory system.
http://www.the-rathouse.com/Revivalist4/RC_FactorySystem.html
Nearly forgot these Amazon reviews
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Interesting to see how many peope were prepared to vote each review “helpful”, it is mostly near 100% but not for “Straw Dogs”, C wright mills on the sociological imagination, Stove’s book on irrationalists and The Fatal Conceit.
Any chance of a amazon.co.uk link for us London bound Australians?
My back catalogue of reading keeps growing, hardly have enough time to keep up on my fiction and non-fiction lists.
At the moment I’m reading The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes. Next on my list will be Liberty and Liberalism by Bill Smith, one of the few classical liberalism texts to produced in Australia in the 19th Century.
I’ll see if they have associates as well, Brendan, and post accordingly if they do.
Okay, I’ve signed us up for the UK associates program, and will be able to build links for UK Catallaxy readers in a couple of days.
Of course I meant , NOT Bil Smith!
Thanks SL! Less selection than amazon.com, but interesting nevertheless.
One title as an introduction might be The Libertarian Reader by David Boaz, a collection of essays and extracts.
Having a brain freeze this morning, that is Bruce Smith NOT Bill Smith above.
Not Brian Smith, football coach?
Would the real B Smith please stand up!
How do I add a link? Following proper instruction, I’ll add my selection of Oakeshott.
There is an Oakeshott industry these days, he was gods gift to academic pedants because he did fine analysis of concepts and he changed his mind so you can write papers about how his concept of x changed between 1945 and 1965.
There is an Association with a dedicated site.
http://www.michael-oakeshott-association.org/
These links are helpful.
http://www.maths.strath.ac.uk/~caas05/oakeshott/oakeshott.html
this is different but also interesting
http://www.oakeshott.org/
Thats very harsh Rafe. His hardly gods gift to academic pedents since he’s largely ignored by most academic political theorists and philosophers. Yes, he finely analysed concepts but made great fun of ‘analysis’.
Also, he really did not change his mind that much over time. You certainly can notice him developing his theory of civil association, and expanding upon his fundamental distinction between civil and enterprise or purposive association, among other things, but nothing that appears like a change of heart.
And, If there is an industry developing around Oakeshott, it is very much a cottage industry.
I sense in your comments, Rafe, a little animus towards Oakeshott. Won’t you forgive that comment he made about Hayek in Rationalism in Politics, even know.
I regularly visit the first site linked. Its a wonderful resources; you might have noticed the correspondence b/w Oakeshott and Popper and the work being done comparing Oakeshott and Mises. I’d be interested in your opinion on this.
I will be interested to follow up the comparison of Oakeshott and Mises.
Popper wrote his paper ‘Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition” as a rejoinder to Oakethott’s critique of rationality but I suspect that their views were very similar.
DB, I’m not sure how to let subscribers add to our amazon links database. Apparently there’s a generic label/tab we can use that allows people to search amazon and buy stuff entirely via Catallaxy, but I haven’t figured out how to embed it yet.
Working on it, will keep everyone posted