Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized… — Douglass North 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
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
I had a dream that Britney Spears rubbed her breasts in my face and Jennifer Lopez gave me head while Salma Hayek… — Donald Fagen 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 have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote… — James K. Galbraith 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
One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic… — Fritz Machlup 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