"Intellectuals and Socialism"

Friedrich A. Hayek

First published 1949

"Intellectuals and Socialism"

The University of Chicago Law Review (Spring 1949), pp. 417-433, The University of Chicago Press; George B. de Huszar ed., The Intellectuals: A Controversial Portrait (Glencoe, Illinois: the Free Press, 1960) pp. 371-84.14 pagesUpdated September 8, 2010

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Author: Friedrich A. Hayek
First published: 1949
Format: PDF
Pages: 14
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Hayek's influential essay analyzing the appeal of socialism to the intellectual class and examining the role of intellectuals in promoting collectivist ideology.

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The Complex Path of Ideological Change

Robert Higgs · Austrian Scholars Conference 2006

Indeed, in a 1949 article titled The Intellectuals and Socialism in the University of Chicago What to the contemporary observer appears as a battle of conflicting interests has indeed often been decided long before in a clash of ideas confined …

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The New World of Capitalism

Ralph Raico · History: The Struggle for Liberty

He has an essay called The Intellectuals and Socialism, one of his famous essays and worth reading.

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The American Imperium

John V. Denson · Liberty versus Power

Frederick Hayek wrote a brilliant essay in 1949 in Chicago Law Review entitled, quote, Intellectuals and Socialism.

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Alan Bock: Persuasion for Liberty

Jeff Riggenbach · The Libertarian Tradition

… Hayek who hit the nail on the head more than 60 years ago, 62 years ago this spring to be exact, back in 1949 in an article for the The University of Chicago Law Review called The Intellectuals and Socialism.

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Academics and the State

Peter G. Klein · The Twentieth Century: An Austrian Critique

F. A. Hayek offered a partial explanation in his very provocative 1949 essay, The Intellectuals and Socialism.

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