The Hayek Lecture Series is sponsored by the Center for the History of Political Economy and an interdisciplinary certificate program called Philosophy, Politics & Economics at Duke University. Learn more on the HOPE Center website or on the Duke PPE website.
Alan S. Kahan is a professor of British Civilization at the University of Versailles, Saint-Quentin. He is the author of six books, among them Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism; Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls; Mind vs Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism; and Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
In this lecture Professor Kahan explores three primary areas, Hayek’s personal view of the history of liberalism, the “real” history of liberalism and why despite Hayek’s “errors” in his views of liberalism they continue to be crucially important and perhaps even more relevant today.