Friedrich Hayek

Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek have been through the wringer.

In which “the intellectual handmaidens of the capitalists” are taken to task.

An intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.

Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman helped devise Pinochet's economic agenda and endorsed the brutal repression that was needed to force it through.

The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them.

As a movement, it has imploded. As a credo, it’s here to stay.

How market fundamentalists convinced Americans to loathe government.

Politicians across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny; but their solution misses the mark.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.

A number of recent books blame the rise of neoliberalism on economists. But the evidence suggests it is still capital that rules.

Neoliberalism set out not to demolish the state, but to create an international order strong enough to override democracy in the service of private property.

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?

How the Nobel Prize–winning economist James M. Buchanan shaped today’s antigovernment politics.

Hayek suspected that nothing about the vindication of neoliberalism was likely to be straightforward.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

How today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ.

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.

The populist turn in our politics is best understood as a revival of old categories of political economy.