Friedrich August von Hayek

1899–1992

Nationality: Austrian

Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond

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.

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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• 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

Quotes from Friedrich August von Hayek:

• Friedrich August von Hayek rediscovers the importance of Henry Thornton’s early 19th century work on “paper credit” and its role in financing the British Empire
• Hayek on Spontaneous Order and the Division of Labor

Titles from Friedrich August von Hayek:

• Introduction: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XII - The Earlier Letters 1812-1848 Part I
• Introduction: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIII - The Earlier Letters 1812-1848 Part II
• Foreword: Economics as a Coordination Problem: The Contributions of Friedrich A. Hayek
• Introduction: An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain
• Author: The Intellectual Portrait Series: The Life and Thought of Friedrich A. Hayek
• Author: New Individualist Review
• Author: “Richard Cantillon”
• Introduction: Selected Essays on Political Economy (FEE ed.)
• Foreword: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
• Editor: Toward Liberty: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 1
• Editor: Toward Liberty: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 2
• Author: “The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945)