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Title: William Warren Bartley miscellaneous papers
Date (inclusive): 1920-1992
Collection Number: 91022
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
285 manuscript boxes, 8 oversize boxes, 13 audio cassette boxes, 2 card file boxes, 2 AV trays
(144.31 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Bartley, William Warren, 1934-1990
Creator:
Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1991.
[Identification of item], William Warren Bartley miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
Library & Archives.
| 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> |
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Friedrich A. von Hayek papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives Sir Karl Raimund Popper papers, Hoover Institution Library
& Archives Gerald P. O'Driscoll correspondence with Friedrich A. von Hayek, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Free enterprise
Economics
Liberty
Philosophy -- Study and teaching