Hayek Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

— Vernon L. Smith

Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best of all…

— Jeffrey Tucker

It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those…

— Joaquin Fuster

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

— Stephen Cambone

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the…

— Gerald Edelman

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped…

— Kenneth Minogue

“There was frequently a moral lesson lurking just below the surface in Hayek’s accounts, usually having to do with Keynes’s overweening self- confidence and…

— Bruce Caldwell

[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of…

— Paul Krugman

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

— Eugene Delacroix

“But Hayek is also one of the handful of social scientists who (along with his teacher Ludwig von Mises) demonstrated more than sixty years…

— David Horowitz

Tied up with his dismissal of natural law is Hayek's continuous, and all-pervasive, attack on reason. Reason is his bete noire, and time and…

— Murray Rothbard