Friedrich Hayek

Fight of the Century: Keyenes vs. Hayek Rap Round 2

Can the government steer the economy or have past attempts helped create the mess we’re still in?  John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek never agreed on the answers to these questions and they still don’t. Let’s listen to the greats. See Keynes and Hayek throwing down in “Fight of the Century.”

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Economic Spectrum - illustration

Interesting illustration of economic spectrum:

To the left is Austrian school of economics, in which the role of government in the economy is limited (Friedrich Hayek & Ron Paul).

Then the Monetarist school (J.P. Morgan, Ben Bernanke) and the Keynesian school (John Maynard Keynes, and Barack Obama), both characterised by big government spending. 

And finally at the end is the grand daddy of all big government, the Communist school of economics (Karl Marx, Kim Jong Il).

Road to Serfdom in Cartoons

The Road to Serfdom Friedrich Hayek (recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974) which had significantly shaped the political ideologies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the concepts of ‘Thatcherism’ and of ‘Reagonomics’. The Road to Serfdom is among the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism and libertarianism.

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