Description
F.A. Hayek (1899-1992), the co-leader of the Austrian free market school, embraced the transparently fraudulent assertion made by Donald McCormick, aka Richard Deacon, in The British Connection which accused A.C. Pigou, the co-leader of the Cambridge market failure school, of being a Soviet spy.
Table of Contents
PART I: FRAUD 1. Introduction; Robert Leeson 2. History's Greatest Fraud?;Robert Leeson 3. The 'Deacon' McCormick Papers; Ian Sayer 4. Insights from 'Deacon' McCormick's Research Assistant; Nigel West PART II: VICTIMS 5.The Triumph of Rhetoric: Pigou as Keynesian Whipping Boy and its Unintended Consequences; Robert Leeson and Daniel Schiffman 6. Wilfrid Noyce; Stewart Hawkins PART III: EVIDENCE 7. Hayek and 'Deacon' McCormick: Testing Austrian Knowledge; Robert Leeson 8. Professional Assessments; Robert Leeson 9. 'Deacon' McCormick and the Madoc Myth; Howard Kimberley 10. An 'Intelligence' Perspective; Daniel Baldino 11. 2 + 2 = 5; Richard Spence 12. Authoritative Sources: The Information Research Department, Journalism and Publishing; John Jenks 13. The Hitler Diary Fraud; Gerhard Weinberg 14. Sources, and the Use of Knowledge in Society; Robert Leeson
