Hayek Quotes

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.

When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.

It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those models developed 50 to 60 years after his.

You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.