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
For additional information about Friedrich Hayek see the following:
- Essays on Hayek
- The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek (audio)
- at our sister website Econlib: the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics entry on Hayek
Watch the OLL Video The Intellectual Portrait Series: The Life and Thought of Friedrich A. Hayek
