Friedrich hayek Quotes

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or…

— Milton Friedman

Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

— Paul Krugman

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

— Irving Kristol

As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek,…

— Robert J. Shiller

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

[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

In fact, a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would…

— Ronald Coase

The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost.…

— Seth Klarman

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

. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in…

— Milton Friedman

Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of…

— Joaquin Fuster

“Central planning inevitably leads to economic chaos and failure. Friedrich Hayek called the delusion that a single person or a group of…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By…

— Julian Simon

Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

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

Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier…

— Mario Bunge

There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the…

— Milton Friedman

At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of…

— George Gilder