I have kept my silence until now, but this claim is so outrageous on a 
number of levels that I can keep silent no longer.
There are around 170 boxes in the Hayek archives. Jeremy Shearmur went 
through the entire archives a couple of summers ago and noticed nothing 
missing. I have not visited the archives in the summer for a couple of 
years, for perhaps obvious reasons, but when I was there last all seemed 
intact.
I have heard of no black market for Hayek's things, thriving or 
otherwise. Hayek's notes on a meeting with Herbert Hoover and a set of 
lecture notes are 2 things that were reported for sale a number of years 
ago.
The only person who has worked in the archives regularly, indeed 
constantly every summer, is Robert Leeson, who it may be noted manages 
to live in tony Palo Alto each summer on a part time visitor's salary 
and who seems to know a lot about a thriving black market.
If things are missing, I just don't know what to think.
Bruce





On 5/31/2014 6:24 AM, Robert Leeson wrote:
> About 20% of the Hayek archives appear to have been 'borrowed' by Austrian "free" market promoters (there is a thriving black market).
>
> Some of the material about the Austrian campaign to block Klein's promotion is missing.  Did Klein leave archival papers? Any suggestions about other archival sources?


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