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1 day ago · A half-century ago, in his book Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman claimed that “free markets” were the only way to ensure political freedom, and Friedrich Hayek, in his 1944 book, The ...
1 day ago · The title of Stiglitz’s book is an implicit callback to one of Regan’s favorite thought leaders, the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, who preached the efficiency of free markets above all ...
5 days ago · Friedrich Hayek. Neoliberalism began accelerating in importance with the establishment of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, whose founding members included Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Karl Popper, George Stigler and Ludwig von Mises. Meeting annually, it became a "kind of international 'who's who' of the classical liberal and neo-liberal ...
2 days ago · Economist Joseph Herbert Furth (1899-1995) was born in Vienna. He was a student friend of Friedrich Hayek and later became the brother-in-law of Gottfried Haberler. In 1943 he was hired by the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C. and retired in 1966. Throughout his life he corresponded extensively with his fellow ex-pat Austrians. His papers […]
5 days ago · The Friedrich A. Hayek Center at the University of Vienna, founded in 1990, is dedicated to exploring and advancing his ideas and legacy. The center promotes research into the economics, philosophy, psychology, political science, and history of Hayek’s work.
5 days ago · Unions keep losing labor-market share, and official figures show the downward slide hasn’t stopped. Last year 10% of workers were union members, down from 10.1% in 2022. In the private economy, the rate was unchanged at 6%. But among public workers it fell to 32.5%, from 33.1%.
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