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Friedrich August von Hayek CH FBA (/ ˈ h aɪ ə k / HY-ək; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔaʊɡʊst fɔn ˈhaɪɛk] ⓘ; 8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian-born British academic who contributed to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history.
The Road to Serfdom is a book by the Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek.In the book, Hayek "[warns] of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning."
Hayek F. A. 1937 Economics and Knowledge Economica V4 N13 pp. 33–54. Hayek F. A. 1940 The Competitive "Solution" Economica V7 N26 pp. 125–149. Hayek, F. A. The Road to Serfdom. Hayek, F. A. 1945 "The Use of Knowledge in Society" The American Economic Review. Hayek, F. A. 1952 The Counter Revolution of Science. Dickinson, H. D. (1933 ...
In 1960, the economist Friedrich Hayek, who many people would describe as politically conservative, wrote an essay titled, "Why I Am Not A Conservative," in which he argued that conservatives had ...
The historical debate was cast between the Austrian School represented by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, who argued against the feasibility of socialism; and between neoclassical and Marxian economists, most notably Cläre Tisch (as a forerunner), Oskar R. Lange, Abba P. Lerner, Fred M. Taylor, Henry Douglas Dickinson and Maurice Dobb ...
Regarded as a seminal work, [6] [7] [8] "The Use of Knowledge in Society" was one of the most praised [9] and cited [10] articles of the twentieth century. The article managed to convince market socialists and members of the Cowles Commission (Hayek's intended target) and was positively received by economists Herbert A. Simon, Paul Samuelson, and Robert Solow.
The Chinese president is a follower of the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, who believed that direct stimulus distorts markets and leads to uncontrollable inflation.
Hayek argued that the road to socialism leads society to totalitarianism and argued that fascism and Nazism were the inevitable outcome of socialist trends in Italy and Germany during the preceding period. Thus, held Hayek, moving leftward from capitalism to socialism is actually moving rightward, from capitalism to fascism. [40]