‘The Use of Knowledge in Society,’ by Friedrich A. Hayek
01 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
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The wealth and technological sophistication of modern society are readily apparent. Less visible, but no less remarkable, is its ability to coordinate the actions of billions of people who know almost nothing about one another’s circumstances. Every day we make decisions without possessing most of the information on which those decisions ultimately depend. We purchase…
‘The Use of Knowledge in Society,’ by Friedrich A. Hayek
Dr. Israel M. Kirzner — “Economics and Entrepreneurship”
21 Aug 2026 Leave a comment
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Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate (with Peter Boettke) 2/17/25
29 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
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Hayek on Decentralized Information in Markets
29 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
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Friedrich von Hayek won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1974. For the 50th anniversary of the prize, the IEA published a short collection of essays called Hayek’s Nobel: 50 Years On, edited by Kristian Niemietz. It Includes Hayek’s speech upon acceptance of the Nobel Prize, “The Pretence…
Hayek on Decentralized Information in Markets
On the Great F.A. Hayek
30 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
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TweetJonathan Fortier and his colleagues at Libertarianism.org produced this truly splendid 21-minute-long video to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hayek’s receipt of the Nobel Prize in economics. The post On the Great F.A. Hayek appeared first on Cafe Hayek.
On the Great F.A. Hayek
Argentina facts of the day
29 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, financial economics, fiscal policy, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Argentina
Argentina’s bonds have already rallied dramatically. One gauge of the nation’s hard-currency debt, the ICE BofA US Dollar Argentina Sovereign Index, has generated a total return of about 90% this year. Meanwhile, the S&P Merval Index has risen more than 160% this year through Monday, far outpacing stock benchmarks in developed, emerging and frontier markets […]
Argentina facts of the day
Slandering Friedman and Hayek
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Milton Friedman Tags: apartheid, regressive left, South Africa
TweetOpponents of the liberal market order often play fast and loose with the facts in order to discredit two of history’s greatest champions of the liberal market order, Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek. Editor, The New York Review of Books Editor: Trevor Jackson writes of “the enthusiasm that free-market fundamentalists like Friedrich Hayek and Milton…
Slandering Friedman and Hayek
My Conversation with the excellent Jennifer Burns
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economics of education, Euro crisis, F.A. Hayek, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode description: Jennifer Burns is a professor history at Stanford who works at the intersection of intellectual, political, and cultural history. She’s written two biographies Tyler highly recommends: her 2009 book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right and her latest, Milton Friedman: The […]
My Conversation with the excellent Jennifer Burns
The Ultimate Knowledge Problem
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, F.A. Hayek Tags: economics of central planning
TweetOver at EconLog, Kevin Corcoran has an excellent post refuting a naive-person’s assertion that central planners can acquire all the knowledge they need to successfully ‘plan’ an economy simply by asking people, questionnaire-style, what they want. But there’s an additional point to be made in response to this naive-person’s assertion. The additional point is this:…
The Ultimate Knowledge Problem
Will AI Make a Planned Economy Feasible? The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited
25 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
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The “socialist calculation debate” happened in the 1920s and 1930s. The economics profession was developing a vision of the economy as made up of prices and quantities for goods and services, based on supply and demand. Socialist economists (for example, Oskar Lange) sought to build on this framework. Their argument was along the following lines:…
Will AI Make a Planned Economy Feasible? The Socialist Calculation Debate Revisited
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