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“I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.”

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Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

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[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

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There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot…

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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…

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

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The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.

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The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary…

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The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

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Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.

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If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic…

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

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Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either…

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