Friedrich Hayek

...to Objectivist apostates, made her hard to love. Rand denounced the conservative-friendly classical liberal economist Friedrich Hayek as "pure poison," primarily for his limited concessions to state planning in certain sectors of the...

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...planet from yours truly in terms of stature and audience, for sure, but there I am, in placesA such asA The New York Times quoting Hayek and calling for the legalization ofA just about everything. A Or calling out George W. Bush as a...

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...on communism in those days and engaged in a massive expansion of government throughout Europe. In England, where Hayek was living when he wrote his book, much private industry was being nationalized, cradle-to-grave welfare programs were...

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...to avoid giving any assurance that everyone in fact would be better off under capitalism. Other libertarian theoristsaEUR"Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von MisesaEUR"avoided this flaw. But Rand regarded their defense of capitalism as...

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...more about free markets. I subscribed to Reason magazine and read Cato Institute research papers. Then Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and Aaron Wildavsky. I think Stossel should walk right to to Geraldo and rip that mustache right off...

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In 1975, I attended a week-long conference in Hartford,Connecticut at which the star attraction was economist Friedrich Hayek. Hayek had shared the 1974 Nobel prize in economics with Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal, and he was doing a...

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...confusion has undermined the social and political legitimacy of the market economy, and has led to serious policy errors. Friedrich von Hayek is the most eloquent expositor of the market as a process of discovery. His argument was a...

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...book draws on a variety of voices past and present -- economists, writers and philosophers, from Thomas Sowell and Friedrich von Hayek to Adam Smith. It explains - What really caused the financial crisis and "Great Recession." How today's...

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...look forward to new phases of volatility in the years ahead. Lest we forget our Austrian School friends, check out this quote by Mr Hayek, taken from his work published in 1979, "CONVERSATIONS WITH GREAT ECONOMISTS: Friedrich A. Hayek,...

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...public debate for another 20 years, and their ideas didn't win votes for nearly 30. But the story is now familiar of how Friedrich Hayek and his associates produced the intellectual roadmap for both Thatcher and Reagan, and the notions...

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