20th century Quote by Vernon L. Smith Download Open image “Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.” — Vernon L. Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare 20th century Century Economic Economic Thinker Hayek Hayek View Leadership Leading Economic Thinker Thinker 20Th Views
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 Copy Share Image
F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century. — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized fashion is… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school. — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
“As Einstein once said, “It is the theory which decides what can be observed.” But I must add that prior to theory there is… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13. — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not… — Vernon L. Smith Copy Share Image
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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