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Hayek’s Official Biographer: The Lost Insights of William Warren Bartley III

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When Friedrich August Hayek died (1992, age 92) his knowledge had helped undermine the legitimacy of one crusading faith: quasi-religious certainty about the benevolence of government. When his biographer, William Warren Bartley III, died (1990, age 55) his knowledge could also have gone on to perform a similar socially useful function: deconstructing and thus diffusing some of the fratricidal disputes between the ‘children of Abraham’ or ‘the people of the book’.

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Leeson, R. (2013). Hayek’s Official Biographer: The Lost Insights of William Warren Bartley III. In: Leeson, R. (eds) Hayek: A Collaborative Biography. Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328564_9

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