Person

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.

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

Titles

The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIII - The Earlier Letters 1812-1848 Part II (introduction)
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XII - The Earlier Letters 1812-1848 Part I (introduction)
Toward Liberty: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises, vol. 1 (editor)
Economics as a Coordination Problem: The Contributions of Friedrich A. Hayek (foreword)
“Richard Cantillon” (author)
“The Use of Knowledge in Society” (1945) (author)