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Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek

February 26, 2021 / by Ricky Porco
Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

F. A. Hayek’s life spanned the twentieth century, and he made his home in some of the great intellectual communities of the period.

Born Friedrich August von Hayek in 1899 to a distinguished family of Viennese intellectuals, Hayek attended the University of Vienna, earning doctorates in 1921 and 1923. Hayek came to the University at age 19 just after World War I, when it was one of the three best places in the world to study economics (the others being Stockholm and Cambridge).

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