Books by Friedrich A. von Hayek

That is the new University of Chicago Press volume of Hayek’s collected works, this time volume 15 .  It is the best single-volume introduction to Hayek’s thought, if you are going to buy or read only one.  It has the best of the early essays, as you might find in Individualism and Economic Order , and then the best later essays which build upon those earlier insights.

MRUniversity.com has a new class on Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order , free on-line pdf version of the book is here .  The class is based around my reread of the book — often considered the single best introduction to Hayek — and what I learned from each chapter., whether positively or negatively.

2. Individualism and Economic Order , Counterrevolution of Science , and in particular Hayek's critique of rationalist constructivism, of which the EU and the euro are prime current examples.  If you wish to know why the euro is failing, or why not every Obama policy will work out, this is the #1 place to go.  The euro project was even driven by the French and resisted by the English, exactly as Hayek's approach would have predicted.

I still think that The Sensory Order is Hayek's most overrated book, though many call it his most underrated book, which in my view is where the overratedness comes from.  I know the recent talk about "neural nets" and the like and you can claim Hayek was a precursor of the idea of the mind as an organ of classification.  I simply think this is an empirical book more or less written in the 1920s about a field which has changed dramatically in the last ten to fifteen years, never mind in the last...

3. Hayek opposed deflation ; he said the same in MTaTTC too.