title: The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History (Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
author:  F. A. Hayek 
description: F. A. Hayek, awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and one of the principal proponents of the libertarian philosophy. This collection of 15 of his essays captures Hayek's views on political economy and economic history expressed in the writings of Mandeville, Hume, Cantillon, Adam Smith, and Henry Thornton. The essays, supplemented by editorial notes, provide an introduction to the historical context of political economy in Britain and the evolution of monetary practices. Five of the essays had never been published, and two others had never been available in English, when the first printing of the book was published in 1991.<br /><br /><strong><em>Reference & Research Book News</em></strong><br /><strong>May 2009</strong><br /><br />Economic thinking, just like any other school of thought, has had its own evolution over the years. <strong><em>The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History </em></strong>is a collection of essays from renown economic scientist F. A. Hayek chronicling the ideas of one of the best economic minds of the twentieth century. His essays discuss the past history of economics from the times of Adam Smith, to his own contemporary times where capitalism and communism were at each other's throats at every front. A must read for any economics student or simply one who wants a better grasp of how money works in the world, <strong><em>The Trend of Economic Thinking</em></strong> is a fine choice in any regard.<br /><br /><strong><em>Midwest Book Review</em></strong><br /><strong>May 2009</strong>
zlib_text: Waging the War of Ideas
  
  Waging the War of Ideas
  J O H N  B L U N D E L L
  Third edition
  The Institute of Economic Affairs
  
  The author
  9
  Foreword by Walter E. Williams
  11
  1 How to move a nation
  17
  (Reason, February 1987)
  2 Waging the war of ideas: 
  why there are no shortcuts
  33
  (The Heritage Lectures, no. 254, at the Heritage
  Foundation, 14 November 1989)
  Afterword by Milton Friedman
  47
  3 No Antony Fisher, no IEA: 
  The Case for Freedom after 50 years
  48
  (Economic Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 1998)
  4 Hayek and the second-hand 
  dealers in ideas
  56
  (Introduction to The Intellectuals and Socialism, 
  IEA, Rediscovered Riches no. 4, October 1998)
  5 The power of ideas
  65
  (Economic Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1998)
  CONTENTS
  Third, expanded edition published in Great Britain in 2007 by
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  First edition published in 2001 by The Institute of Economic Affairs
  This collect