Transcript
  • 00:01    |    
    Initial credits
  • 00:19    |    
    How Kurt Leube met Friedrich A. Hayek
  • 02:18    |    
    Hayek's biography
    • His career
    • His publications
      • The Sensory Order
      • Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill
      • The Counter-Revolution of Science
    • Hayek's years in Chicago
    • Freiburg University in Germany
    • The constitution of liberty
    • At the Salzburg University in Austria
  • 41:26    |    
    Hayek's evolutionary theory
    • The maximizing principle
    • The making of predictions
  • 54:12    |    
    Dr. Kurt Leube's personal comments on Hayek
  • 54:59    |    
    Final credits


Friedrich A. Hayek: His Life and Work

New Media  | 10 de febrero de 2004  | Vistas: 3760

About this video

Kurt Leube, one of Friedrich A. von Hayek’s disciples, gives a brief biography and a list of his mentor’s works. He tells the story of his teacher, from his early years, and the atmosphere he was raised in, to his death in 1992. Leube illustrates Hayek’s years in World War I, his studies, and the various years he spent in Chicago, his teaching positions at University of Freiburg in Germany, and his winning of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974. Furthermore, he briefly explains Hayek’s evolutionary theory, in which he claimed that every single human action is purposefully undertaken with the rational belief to be better off than otherwise. Finally, Prof. Leube reveals an assortment of personal comments regarding Friedrich A. von Hayek and his work.

Credits

Friedrich A. Hayek: His Life and Work
Kurt Leube

Auditorio Friedrich A. Hayek
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala, February 10, 2004

A New Media - UFM production. Guatemala, February 2004. 
Camera: Jorge Samayoa; digital editing: Alexander Arauz, Rebeca Zúñiga; index: Jorge Estrada; synopsis: Sebastian del Buey; synopsis reviser: Daphne Ortiz; publication: Fernando De León.




Conferencista

Kurt Leube is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution of…