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Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:40:52 -0700
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De-editing Hayek's Fatal Conceit - clarification
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In response to off-line requests for clarification: A lawyer (Steve Dimmick) is forensically examining the numerous drafts of the Fatal Conceit to see whether the editor, William Warren Bartley III, was doing a sterling job of tidying up Hayek's Germanic prose etc or illegimately introducing his own epistemological pre-dispositions and passing them off as the final resting point of Hayek's intellectual journey.      

The concerns have been summarised by Lanny Ebenstein:

http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2005_03/ebenstein-deceit.html

Robert Leeson

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