Portrait of Friedrich August von Hayek

Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

1899 – 1992

Hayek was one of the most important free market economists of the 20th century. He was a member of the Austrian school of economics, taught at the London School of Economics, wrote extensively on banking and monetary theory, the socialist calculation debate, and the theory of spontaneous orders.

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See also our collection of extracts, essays, and other resources about Hayek.

Hayek featured as the May 2021 OLL Birthday. Read it here

See the Liberty Matters online discussions on Mandeville, Hayek, and the Politics of Self-Esteem and Hayek’s Epistemic Liberalism

Read the Liberty Classics Hayek, Mises, and the Methodology of the Social Sciences and Rehabilitating Self-Help: Why Hayek Was Wrong about Samuel Smiles from Econlib

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Watch the OLL Video The Intellectual Portrait Series: The Life and Thought of Friedrich A. Hayek

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Economics

Hayek on Spontaneous Order and the Division of Labor

Friedrich August von Hayek