1930s Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Vernon L. Smith

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

— Julian Simon

“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because of!) the…

— André Gunder Frank

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned…

— Irving Kristol

“The Austrian born Von Hayek has long been under the control of David Rockefeller, and Von Hayek theories have been fairly widely accepted in…

— John Coleman

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

— Peter L. Berger

“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

The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist:…

— Joaquin Fuster

I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my…

— James K. Galbraith

“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

I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples,…

— Vaclav Klaus

“There was a pretext, albeit slender, that might have prompted Hayek to reach out to Keynes: Keynes had succeeded Edgeworth as editor of the…

— Nicholas Wapshott