Friedrich A. von Hayek

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born

May 08, 1899

died

March 23, 1992

gender

male

genre

Politics, Philosophy

influences

Wieser, Mises, Menger, Mach, Mandeville, Hume, Acton

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Friedrich August von Hayek CH was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered by some to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. Hayek's account of how changing prices communicate signals which enable individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics. Hayek also wrote on the topics of jurisprudence, neuroscience and the history of ideas.

Hayek is one of the most influential members of the Austrian School of economics, and in 1974 shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal "for their p...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 4,228 ratings · 453 reviews · 69 distinct works

	The Road to Serfdom 4.18 avg rating — 3,081 ratings — published 1944 — 42 editions	My rating:
	The Constitution of Liberty 4.23 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1960 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. von Hayek, W.W. Bartley (Editor), W. W. Bartley, III (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 219 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Individualism and Economic Order 4.18 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1948 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order 4.25 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice 4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Capitalism and the Historians 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1954 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Counter-Revolution Of Science 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time”
― Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Constitution Of Liberty

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“The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.”
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“It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.”
― Friedrich A. von Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

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