Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich August von Hayek
Full name	Friedrich August von Hayek
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Old Whig, Classical liberalism and Austrian School
Main interests	Economics, social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of mind
Notable ideas	Economic calculation problem, Catallaxy, Extended order, Dispersed knowledge, Spontaneous order
Influenced by Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord Acton, Carl Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Ludwig von Mises, Karl Popper
Influenced Karl Popper, Konrad Lorenz, Robert Nozick, Israel Kirzner, Murray Rothbard, John Hicks, George Stigler, Ben Reid, Milton Friedman, Michael Novak, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, Sir Keith Joseph Margaret Thatcher, Bruno Leoni, Giovanni Sartori, Atilla Yayla, Bruce Caldwell, John Gray, Jimmy Wales, Ludwig Erhard, Ron Paul, Alan Greenspan

Friedrich August von Hayek, CH (8 May 1899– 23 March 1992) was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher. He became known because he strongly defended liberalism and free-market capitalism. He was against any form of socialism or collectivism.

He is thought of as one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the most important members of the Austrian School of economics. He also had many ideas in the fields of jurisprudence and cognitive science. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics with his rival Gunnar Myrdal. The award was for their work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their analysis of the inter-dependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena. He also received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. He is thought to be one of the major causes of change from the interventionist and Keynesian policies of the first part of the 20th century back towards classical liberalism after the 1980s.

Main books

• Profits, interest and investment: and other essays on the theory of industrial fluctuations, 1939.
• The road to serfdom, 1944. ISBN 978-0-226-32055-7
• Individualism and economic order, 1948. ISBN 978-0-226-32093-9
• The counter-revolution of science: studies on the abuse of reason, 1952. ISBN 978-0913966679
• The constitution of liberty, 1960, ISBN 978-0-226-32084-7 ...: The definitive edition, 2011. Description and preview.
• Law, legislation and liberty (3 volumes)

Volume I. Rules and order, 1973. ISBN 978-0-226-32086-1

Volume II. The mirage of social justice, 1976. ISBN 978-0-226-32083-0

Volume III. The political order of a free people, 1979. ISBN 978-0-226-32090-8

• The fatal conceit: the errors of socialism, 1988. ISBN 978-0-226-32066-3

Related pages

• Constitutional economics
• Political economy