The Ideas and Impact of F. A. Hayek

A panel discussion featuring the authors of two books about Hayek, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of The Road to Serfdom.

Bruce J. Caldwell
Dick Armey
Lanny Ebenstein
Tom G. Palmer

Tom G. Palmer is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, director of the Institute’s educational division, Cato University, Executive Vice President for International Programs at Atlas Network, and author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, among other works.

Featuring Bruce J. Caldwell, Author, Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (Chicago, 2003); and Lanny Ebenstein, Author, Hayek’s Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (Palgrave, 2003); with comments by Dick Armey, Former professor of economics, former House majority leader, and co-​chairman, Citizens for a Sound Economy. Moderated by Tom Palmer.

“It is hardly an exaggeration to refer to the 20th century as the Hayek century,” John Cassidy wrote in the New Yorker. Confirming Hayek’s stature, two new books from major publishers explore the development of his thought. Biographer Alan Ebenstein discusses Hayek’s Austrian roots and his relationship to such thinkers as Mill, Marx, Keynes, and Popper. Bruce Caldwell, editor of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek traces the complex evolution of Hayek’s thought—and the evolution of Austrian economics—and places Hayek in a broader intellectual context. His book has been called “the best book in economics of 2003.”