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Friedrich August von Hayek CH FBA (/ ˈ h aɪ ə k / HY-ək, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔaʊɡʊst fɔn ˈhaɪɛk] ⓘ; 8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian-British academic, who contributed to economics, political philosophy, psychology, and intellectual history.
Dec 6, 2022 · Social theorist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek and his colleague Gunnar Myrdal each won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. His theory on how changing prices relay information that...
Sep 15, 2012 · Hayek worked in the areas of philosophy of science, political philosophy, the free will problem, and epistemology. For all that, Hayek was more hedgehog than fox. His life’s work, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, illuminated the nature and significance of spontaneous order.
Aug 16, 2024 · F.A. Hayek (born May 8, 1899, Vienna, Austria—died March 23, 1992, Freiburg, Germany) was an Austrian-born British economist noted for his criticisms of the Keynesian welfare state and of totalitarian socialism.
Hayek was the best-known advocate of what is now called Austrian economics. He was, in fact, the only major recent member of the Austrian school who was actually born and raised in Austria. After World War I, Hayek earned his doctorates in law and political science at the University of Vienna.
Biographical. Born: May 8, 1899, Vienna, Austria (son of Dr. August von Hayek, Professor of Botany at the University of Vienna and Felicitas née Juraschek) At various dates, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Stanford, Arkansas, Virginia, California (Los Angeles), Cape Town and Salzburg.
Mar 23, 1992 · Friedrich August von Hayek. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974. Born: 8 May 1899, Vienna, Austria. Died: 23 March 1992, Freiburg, Germany.