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Non-Jewish Characteristics of Hayek’s Thought  (Page numbers in parentheses refer to Stephen Kresge and Leif Wenar, eds., Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.) by John I. Johnson MEMBERS OF HUMAN GROUPS manifest phenotypic similarity…
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Was Hayek Jewish? by John I. Johnson (Page numbers in parentheses refer to Stephen Kresge and Leif Wenar, eds., Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.) SOME WRITERS — e.g., David Ramsay Steele in From Marx to Mises (1992) — have identified Hayek…
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by John I. Johnson AUSTRIAN-BORN philosopher and economist Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) is well-known as an intellectual advocate of free markets. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. Hayek’s best-known work is The Road to Serfdom, a dissent from socialism and Communism…
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