Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
In fact, a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
[Friedrich] Hayek is not protesting that things like child labor and stuff are good. He's just trying to show that when government… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image