
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian-British economist and political philosopher. Author of The Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty. Nobel laureate (1974). Theorist of spontaneous order and the price system as a mechanism of distributed knowledge.

Friedrich Hayek
Ask Friedrich Hayek about markets, spontaneous order, and The Road to Serfdom. Argue with the Austrian who warned that planning paves the road to serfdom.
Austrian-British economist and political philosopher. Author of The Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty. Nobel laureate (1974). Theorist of spontaneous order and the price system as a mechanism of distributed knowledge.
- Born
- 1899
- Died
- 1992
- Birthplace
- Vienna
- Nationality
- Austria, United Kingdom
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