Reflecting in 1978, Hayek wrote, “I think the first paper I ever wrote … was on a thing which had already occurred to me in the last few days in the army, suggesting that you might have a double government, a cultural and an economic government.” He said that this occurred to him as one way to resolve “the conflict between nationalities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.” He wondered if “it might be possible in governmental functions to separate the two things—let the nationalities have their own cultural arrangements and yet let the central government provide the framework of a common economic
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