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Which Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
- To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our…
- It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions…
- I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the…
- He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to…
- We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what…
- We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed…
- It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events…
- The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have…
- Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a…
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