William Warren Bartley miscellaneous papers, 1920-1992

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Summary

Creators:
Bartley, William Warren, 1934-1990 and Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992
Abstract:
Drafts, galleys, proofs, memoranda, and correspondence related to production of the first volume of the collected works of the Austrian economist Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (London, 1988), edited by William W. Bartley; and sound recordings of speeches and lectures by F. A. von Hayek and others related to laissez-faire economics.
Extent:
285 manuscript boxes, 8 oversize boxes, 13 audio cassette boxes, 2 card file boxes, 2 AV trays (144.31 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], William Warren Bartley miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The William W. Bartley papers contain drafts of the first volume of the collected works of Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism and sound recordings of speeches and lectures by F. A. von Hayek and others.

William Warren Bartley was a professor and American philosopher who edited works by Karl Popper and Friedrich A. von Hayek. He was the editor of Hayek's The Fatal Conceit, a book which discusses Hayek's view of socialism, defining the fatal conceit as the idea that "man is able to shape the world according to his wishes" (p. 27). The Fatal Conceit file contains drafts of this work and related correspondence.

The collection contains Sound recordings of economics lectures by Friedrich A. von Hayek, Ronald Coase, Roger Garrison, William Hutt, Israel Kirzner, Murry Rothbard, Gerald O'Driscoll, and other economists.

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1934
Born, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
1956
B.A. in philosophy, Harvard University
1958
A.M. in philosophy, Harvard University
1961-1964
Lecturer, Warburg Institute, University of London
1962
Ph.D, London School of Economics (studied under Karl Popper)
1965-1966
Co-director, Humanities Program, University of California, San Diego
1967-1968
Associate professor, University of Pittsburg
1969-1973
Professor and senior research associate, University of Pittsburg
1970-1989
Professor, California State University at Hayward
1973
Author, <title render="italic">Wittgenstein</title>
Professor of philosophy at California State University, Hayward
1977
Editor, Lewis Carroll's Symbolic Logic
1978
Author, Werner Erhard, the Transformation of a Man: The Founding of est
1982
Editor, The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism and Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics: From The Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
1983
Editor, Realism and the Aim of Science by Karl Popper
1985-
Senior research fellow, Hoover Institution
1988
Editor, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. von Hayek
1990
Died
Author, <title render="italic">Unfathomed Knowledge, Unmeasured Wealth: On Universities and the Wealth of Nations</title>
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1991.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Box 287 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], William Warren Bartley miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US