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Today is December 7th, 2012, and my guest is Don Boudreau of George Mason University.

We blog together at Cafe Hayek, and our topic for today is Hayek, the man, F-A, Hayek.

And I have to say, uh, done, although we've blogged together at Cafe Hayek, and I write

about Hayek a lot, I've learned much of what I've learned about Hayek from Don.

And I thought what we would do today is a couple things, given overview of Hayek's work,

his written work, and then suggest a path for readers who are beginners who don't know

much Hayek where you should start, because I think a lot of people think they should

start with the road to surf.

And that's wouldn't be where I would start, maybe where you would start Don.

And essentially this will be an annotated bibliography.

What are the major works of Hayek, and what are their significance, what are the key ideas

in those works, and how a reader might begin to approach it.

So Don, why don't you start, give us an overview of his writing.

Well, Hayek, he was born in 1889 in Austria, and he started writing, he came famous early

on, in the German speaking world, he was writing on money and banking issues, and some articles

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