RUNNN!!!
Posted on 05/08/2009 10:30:06 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
Friedrich August von Hayek was born on this date, 1899, in Vienna. Most readers of this blog know his work. If you are not so familiar, here are a couple of links to introduce one of the most -- if not the most -- important thinkers of the 20th century:
Biographical note by Garrison & Kirzner, in the New Palgrave.
Same, from History of Economic Thought.
Same, from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
A nice short essay on Hayek's influence, by John Cassidy, for the Hoover Digest.
The prize lecture and banquet speech he gave in Stockholm in connection with his 1974 Nobel Prize can be read here.
If you could only read one of his articles, I'd recommend his influential 1945 AER piece, The Use of Knowledge in Society.
For much more on the man and his work, see the Mises Institute website, the Library of Economics and Liberty, and Greg Ransom's Hayek Scholars' Page.
More: Come to think of it, my own links page has a number of Hayek items in section III.E., and the Mises Blog offers up a nice list of Hayek quotes for the occasion. One of my favorites: "We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice."
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Happy Birthday, Friedrich!
Please, add my name to your philosophy ping list, thanks.
DOES ANYONE ELSE HEAR THAT WHIRRING SOUND??????
RUNNN!!!
Hehe THAT’S AWESOME...
I don’t know if anyone got it...but the whirring sound was Hayek spinning in his grave. I should have been more explicit...:)
I’m stealing that picture...
I thought you meant that the black helicopters are coming after us for celebrating Hayek. LOL
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