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Part I: Crony Capitalists and Their 'Free' Market School Of Economics -- 1. 'Free' Market 'Knowledge' -- 2. The Deception Plans of the 'Aristocratic Revolution': 'von' Hayek I, II and III -- 3. The Deluding and the Deluded -- 4. Summoned by Bells to Aristocratic Service -- 5. 'Free' Market 'Knowledge': Seven Suggested Research Topics -- Part II: Hitler and The Austrian School 'United Front' with 'Neo-Nazis' -- 6. Power, Terror and Rights: an Overview Chronology -- 7. From Metternicht's 'Justice, Love and Peace' to Mises' Oligarchic Liberty and Russia of the Oligarchs -- 8. Cold War 'Peace' -- 9. 'Shooting in Cold Blood' -- 10. What 'things' did Hitler 'get done'? -- 11. The Unravelling and the Glue?

This volume, Part XII, examines the "free" market Use of Knowledge in Society; examines the foundations of "free" market educational credentials; and asks whether those funded by the tobacco industry and the carbon lobby should be accorded "independent policy expert" status.

Intro -- Contents -- Chronology -- Part I Hayek's Luck -- 1 'I Have Been Lucky in This Game' -- 1 'Von' Hayek's Luck -- 2 Producer Sovereignty -- 3 Property: 'Reflections on Becoming an Austrian Economist and Staying One' -- 4 The Four Gospels -- 5 Chicago and Their Austrian 'Other Half': Repulsive Attraction -- 6 Volume Overview -- Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics (and Related Projects) -- 2 The Tobacco, Obesity and Fossil Fuel Lobby-'As Happy as Hell' -- 1 An Overview of the Argument Plus Indirect Test (1) -- 2 Indirect Test (2) -- 3 Indirect Test (3) -- 4 Indirect Test (4) -- Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics (and Related Projects) -- 3 1-15: Residual Reverence Towards the Second Estate -- 1 Recruitment to the London School of Economics -- 2 'Free' Market 'Intellectuals': Recruitment Through 'Specious' Visions -- Bibliography -- 4 16-20: Loyal 'Intermediaries' -- 1 Robbins and Machlup, Knight and Viner -- 2 Knight: A Second Chicago Oral Tradition? -- 3 Schmidt and Berger -- Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics -- 5 21-24: 'I Desire to Preserve Correct Relations in Public' -- 1 Kaldor, Scitovsky and Thomas -- 2 Galbraith and 'Knowledge' Communities -- 3 Keynes, Sraffa, Kahn and Joan Robinson -- 4 Friedman's Prediction of Stagflation -- 5 Slum Dwellers -- 6 'Not a Matter of a Simple Defence of a Liberal System of Society': Austrians and the Eternal 'Merit' of 'Fascism' -- References -- 6 25: Suppression, the Dogs That Didn't Bark and the Emerging Chicago School of Economics -- 1 Suppression -- 2 Dogs That Didn't Bark -- 3 Non-recruitment to the University of Chicago Department of Economics -- 4 Hayek Mark I and Hayek Mark II? -- Archival Insight into the Evolution of Economics (and Related Projects) -- 7 31 Conclusions About Hayek's Nineteen Thirty-One 'Prediction'.

Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired "free" market has adopted "The Slogan of Liberty" - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed "knowledge" - as the epigone Godfather, Hans Sennholz, insists - what validity do its policy recommendations have? Should those who falsely claim to have PhDs be tax-funded as "Post-Doctoral Fellows" and "Professors"? This volume examines the consequences of the 'free' market colonisation of economics - climate change, financial crises and the corruption of academic discourse.

On 9 August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment; on 29 April 1975, the United States scuttled from their Embassy in Saigon - optics that were interpreted as defeats for the 'International Right'. Yet in 1975, Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party; and in 1976 Ronald Reagan almost unseated a sitting Republican Party President. Pivotal to the 'turn to the Right' was Friedrich 'von' Hayek's 1974 Nobel Prize for Economic Science - awarded for having used Austrian Business Cycle Theory to predict the Great Depression: 'For him it is not a matter of a simple defence of a liberal system of society as may sometimes appear from the popularized versions of his thinking.' The evidence suggests that Hayek's fraudulent assertion was uncovered at the University of Chicago in the early 1930s - but not reported. The most likely explanation is self-censorship - for reasons of ideological correctness, fund raising and residual deference to the Second Estate. Four indirect tests suggest that 'free' market economists have - in other instances and presumably for fund-raising motives - suppressed embarrassing 'knowledge': which suggests that they were perfectly capable of suppressing 'knowledge' about Hayek's non-prediction of the Great Depression. With respect to the Nobel Prize and thus his ability to reach a wider audience, Hayek was fortune in having two loyal 'intermediaries': Lionel Robbins and Fritz Machlup who were - and probably felt themselves to be - 'socially' inferior to 'von' Hayek.--

F.A. von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Nobel Prize winning economist, famous for promoting an Austrian version of classical liberalism. The multi-volume Hayek: A Collaborative Biography examines the evolution of his life and influence. Two concepts of civilization revolve around power - should it be separated or concentrated? Liberalism in the non-Austrian classical tradition remains fearful of power concentrated in the hands of government, labour unions or corporations; Red Terrorists sought to monopolize power to liquidate enemies and competitors as a prelude to utopia (the 'withering away of the State'); and behind the 'slogan of liberty, ' White Terror promoters (Mises and Hayek) sought to concentrate power in the hands of a 'dictatorial democracy' where henchmen would liquidate enemies, and - 'guided' by 'utopia' (the 'spontaneous' order) - follow orders from their social superiors. This volume, Part XII, examines the 'free' market Use of Knowledge in Society; examines the foundations of 'free' market educational credentials; and asks whether those funded by the tobacco industry and the carbon lobby should be accorded 'independent policy expert' status.

Hayek claimed that he always made it his rule 'not to be concerned with current politics, but to try to operate on public opinion.' However, evidence suggests that he was a party political operative with 'free' market scholarship being the vehicle through which he sought - and achieved - party political influence. The 'main purpose' of his Mont Pelerin Society had 'been wholly achieved'. Mises promoted 'Fascists' including Ludendorff and Hitler, and Hayekians promoted the Operation Condor military dictatorships and continue to maintain a 'united front' with 'neo-Nazis.' Hayek, who supported Pinochet's torture-based regime and played a promotional role in 'Dirty War' Argentina, is presented as a saintly figure. These chapters place 'free' market promotion in the context of the post-1965 neo-Fascist 'Strategy of Tension', and examine Hayek's role in the promotion of deflation that facilitated Hitler's rise to power; his proposal to relocate Gibraltarians across the frontier into 'Fascist' Spain; the Austrian revival of the 1970s; the role of (what was presented as) 'neutral academic data' on behalf of the 'International Right' and their efforts to promote Franz Josef Strauss and Ronald Reagan and defend apartheid and the Shah of Iran.

"Funded by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the Mises- and Hayek-inspired 'free' market has adopted 'The Slogan of Liberty' - but should their faith-based assertions be accorded the same epistemological status as a science? If Austrian economics is a branch of divinely revealed 'knowledge' - as the epigone Godfather, Hans Sennholz, insists - what validity do its policy recommendations have? Should those who falsely claim to have PhDs be tax-funded as 'Post-Doctoral Fellows' and 'Professors'? This volume examines the consequences of the 'free' market colonisation of economics - climate change, financial crises and the corruption of academic discourse"--

"Contents" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "1: What Is 'Hayek'?" -- " 'The Victory of Fascism in a Number of Countries Is Only an Episode in the Long History of Struggles over the Problem of Property.'" -- " Austrian 'Logic' and Human Rights Abuses" -- " Volume Overview" -- " Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "2: Faith-Based Economics" -- " The George Mason Recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences" -- " 'Financial Considerations'" -- " 'Get Rid of the Bums'" -- " 'Will Do' for What?" -- " 'Defend Family Values'" -- " Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "3: Hayek, Mises, and the Iron Rule of Unintended Consequences" -- " Introduction1" -- " An American Creed" -- " Fusion Energy" -- " God, 'Free' Markets, and 'The Right to Work'" -- " The John Birch Society" -- " The 'Right to Work' Movement" -- " Building a Network" -- " Collectivism, Colonialism, and 'Red Menace' Communism" -- " Satan, Roosevelt, and LaHaye" -- " Christian Reconstructionism and Neofascism" -- " Liberal Fascism and Tea Parties" -- " Conclusions" -- " Notes" -- "References" -- "4: Accelerating the Climate of Hate: The Austrian School of Economics, Hayek, and 'The New Hate'" -- " Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "5: Christian Reconstructionism and the Austrian School of Economics" -- " Introduction" -- " Rushdoony and the Theology of Christian Reconstructionism" -- " An Overview of Christian Reconstruction" -- " Reconstructionism and Anti-statism" -- " Austrian Parasites" -- " The Volker Fund" -- " The Origins of the Volker Fund" -- " The Center for American Studies" -- " Religion and the Collapse of the Volker Fund" -- " Gary North and Christian Economics" -- " Before Christian Economics" -- " An Overview of Christian Economics" -- " Gold Bugs" -- " Y2K and Beyond" -- " Conclusion" -- " Notes

In this volume, a variety of well-known contributors discuss the process by which Hayek and others attached a "divine right" argument to the "free" market. Topics range from Hayek's philosophical influences, to the profound change his ideas wrought on the political and economic landscape.