Hayek, Mises ... and Foucault?

• Author: Gillespie, Nick
• Position: Briefly Noted - F.A. Hayek, Ludwigvon Mises and Michel Foucault - Brief article

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You don't normally associate the leftist high priest Michel Foucault--likely the most influential figure in American academia during the last 40 years and the most cited intellectual in the humanities-with libertarian economists such as F.A. Hayek, Ludwigvon Mises, Joseph Schumpeter, and Milton Friedman. Yet five years before his death in 1984, Foucault gave a generally appreciative series of Paris lectures on classical liberalism that have finally been translated into English.

In The Birth of Biopolitics (Palgrave MacMillan)...