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Roberts rap video: The Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, presents the impact of government spending (Keysenian theory) versus a free market solution (Hayek theory) on the economy using a rap video.
The Hayek Century
Economist and Hoover honorary fellow Friedrich Hayek spent seven decades extolling the supremacy of capitalism over socialism. For most of those decades, Hayek was a voice in the wilderness. Yet as John Cassidy argues, by the end of his life Hayek was vindicated to such an extent that "it is hardly an exaggeration to refer to the twentieth century as the Hayek century."
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
Produced by John Papola and Russ Roberts.
Cogan Book Tapped As Hayek Prize Finalist
Hoover Senior Fellow John F. Cogan’s book, The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs has been chosen as a finalist for the 2018 Hayek Book Prize.
John Cogan Wins Hayek Prize
Hoover Senior Fellow John F. Cogan’s book, The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs, won the 2018 Hayek Book Prize.
Bruce Caldwell Delivers Keynote Address On Hayek For Library & Archives Workshop On Political Economy
On Friday, June 24, the second annual Hoover Institution Library & Archives Workshop on Political Economy hosted a public lecture by renowned scholar Bruce Caldwell, professor of economics at Duke University and director of Duke's Center for the History of Political Economy. Caldwell is the author of Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century, and for the past two decades his research has focused on the writings of Austrian Nobel Prize-winning economist and social theorist Friedrich Hayek, whose papers are housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Bruce Caldwell Delivers Keynote Address On Hayek For Library & Archives Workshop On Political Economy
On Friday, June 24, the second annual Hoover Institution Library & Archives Workshop on Political Economy hosted a public lecture by renowned scholarBruce Caldwell, professor of economics at Duke University and director of Duke's Center for the History of Political Economy.
The Courage of Friedrich Hayek
William F. Buckley Jr. reflects on Friedrich Hayek’s invaluable contributions to the fight against socialism—a fight that was still very much under way when Buckley delivered these remarks a quarter of a century ago.
Why Friedrich Hayek Is Making a Comeback
The stimulus package was passed with much talk of Keynesian multipliers and boosting aggregate demand. But now that the stimulus has barely dented the unemployment rate, and with government spending and deficits soaring, it's natural to turn to Hayek.
The Fight of the Century
Man of the Century
George F. Will pays tribute to “America’s most consequential public intellectual of the twentieth century.”
Hoover Institution Library and Archives Modernize Their Preservation Program for the Twenty-first Century
Each year, thousands of researchers from around the world visit the Hoover Institution Library and Archives to examine their vast store of materials. From the political cartoons of Louis Raemaekers from World War I to the recordings of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcasts during the cold war to the tapes of William F. Buckley Jr.'s Firing Line television series, more than 5,000 separate collections of historical documents are housed in the library and archives. Each collection plays a vital role in understanding the history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Collecting the Twentieth Century
A photographic history of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. By Cissie Dore Hill.
DeLong looks back
Two wonderful posts by Brad DeLong, (here and here) on the economic changes of the last century...
Papers Of Free-Market Economist George Koether Now Available
The personal papers of George Koether, now available for research, offer insights to the economic and political thought in the United States during the mid-twentieth century, as well reflecting Koether’s relationships with fellow economists such as Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek.
Vermeer's Hat
The latest EconTalk is a conversation with Timothy Brook, author of Vermeer's Hat, a lovely book that looks at the dawn of globalization in the 17th century by examining Vermeer's paintings and other bits of Dutch culture...
Five of top ten in National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction list by Hoover authors
When Economics Was Young
David R. Henderson on Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott
Political Economy Workshop Discusses Race and Conservatism
Now in its fourth year, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ Workshop on Political Economy brings together scholars from across the globe to study the history of economic thought using the archives of such notable thinkers as Karl Popper, Milton Friedman, and F.A. Hayek. This year the workshop welcomed Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and author of The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power (2015), who presented a keynote address on June 28th.
A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives
Developed from Hoover fellow Bertrand M. Patenaude's book of the same name, the exhibit draws on the Hoover Institution Library and Archives' vast trove of rare historical documents and artifacts. A Wealth of Ideas tells the story of the institution, its treasures, its evolving role in the history of Stanford University.