Friedrich Hayek
1899 – 1992 · Austria · Economics, Political Economy
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1974
Prices as information; the intellectual engine of late-century market liberalism.
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- Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006 · Economics, Politics
Hayek's knowledge-in-prices argument is the Chicago case against planning.
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