Addresses Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“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

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

— Peter L. Berger

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

Friedrich Hayek made the point that one of the keystones of socialism is the denial of individual responsibility. Thus, the crusade for socialism always…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

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

[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

“In a passage often cited by Western conservatives and especially loved by American libertarians, the Austrian economist F. A. Hayek wrote in 1960: “The…

— Thomas M. Nichols

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

— Irving Kristol

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

— Vernon L. Smith

“Central planning inevitably leads to economic chaos and failure. Friedrich Hayek called the delusion that a single person or a group of government planners…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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