Rediscovering F. A. Hayek: 50 Years After the Nobel

This documentary examines the intellectual life and legacy of F. A. Hayek, 50 years after he won the Nobel Prize.

Bruce J. Caldwell

General editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press) and Director of the Center for the Study of the History of Political Economy at Duke University.

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Donald J. Boudreaux

Don Boudreaux is a professor of economics at George Mason University, where he served as department chair from 2001 to 2009, and holds several positions of distinction at George Mason’s Mercatus Center. Boudreaux is the author of Globalization (2008) and blogs at Cafe Hayek. A collection of his letters to the editors of a variety of major publications, Hypocrites & Half-​Wits, appeared in 2012. He holds a PhD from Auburn and a JD from the University of Virginia.

Deirdre McCloskey

Deirdre McCloskey has been a professor of economics, history, English, communications, philosophy and classics, and arts and culture at various points in her career. She is best known for her contributions to the understanding of the economic history of Britain, the quantification of historical inquiry, the rhetoric of economics and human sciences, economic methodology, virtue ethics, feminist economics, heterodox economics, the role of mathematics in economic analysis, and the role of significance testing in economics.

James A. Dorn

James A. Dorn is Cato’s vice president for monetary studies, editor of the Cato Journal, senior fellow, and director of Cato’s annual monetary conference. He has written widely on Federal Reserve policy and monetary reform, and is an expert on China’s economic liberalization. He has edited more than ten books, including The Search for Stable Money (with Anna J. Schwartz), The Future of Money in the Information Age, and China in the New Millennium. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, and scholarly journals. He writes regularly for Forbes​.com. From 1984 to 1990, he served on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. Dorn has been a visiting scholar at the Central European University and Fudan University in Shanghai. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia.

F. A. Hayek

F. A. Hayek, the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought.

Barbara Galletti
Senior Producer, Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org

Barbara Galletti is the Senior Producer of Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org. Over the past nine years, she has worked to promote the ideas of liberty through different types of content. A co-​founder and former Audiovisual Director of the Peruvian educational platform Enterarse, she brought her experience to the Cato Institute and now Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org to create engaging audiovisual content. Her objective is to make complex information more accessible and bring the principles of free societies to life for a wide array of audiences. She holds a BA in Law from Universidad de Lima and an MS in Media Science from Boston University.

Fifty years ago, Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize in economics. However, the road that got him there was filled with skepticism and unheard warnings. Why were they ignored, and what makes them especially relevant today? Rediscover the ideas of F. A. Hayek and the historical context in which they were developed in this Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org documentary.