Yang Jisheng — How Hayek Helped Me Understand China’s Tragedy

By Greg Ransom, on May 29th, 2013%

Yang Jisheng’s 2013 Manhattan Institute Hayek Prize lecture:

In the space of four years, from 1958 to 1962, China experienced a disaster of historic proportions – the death by starvation of more than 30 million people. This occurred in a time of peace, without epidemic or abnormal climatic conditions. A confluence of historical factors caused . . . → Read More: Yang Jisheng — How Hayek Helped Me Understand China’s Tragedy

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Robert Bork and F. A. Hayek discuss the Cognitive Limitations of Experts, Natural Scientists & Sociologists

By Greg Ransom, on December 19th, 2012%

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Hayek at the 1961 Symposium on the Principles of Self Organization

By Greg Ransom, on November 16th, 2012%

 

“In June 1961, BCL hosted a coming out party of sorts: the Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization at Allerton Park. The symposium brought together such notables as Warren McCulloch, general systems theorists Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Anatol Rapoport, Nobel economics laureate Friedrich Hayek, management guru Stafford Beer, neuropsychiatrist Ross Ashby, logician Lars . . . → Read More: Hayek at the 1961 Symposium on the Principles of Self Organization

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Eamonn Butler on “Why Hayek Matters”

By Greg Ransom, on October 14th, 2012%

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Hayek on the Euro

By Greg Ransom, on June 19th, 2012%

“I started remarking against the idea of a common European currency, saying why not simply admit all the other currencies competing with yours, and then you don’t need a standard currency.  People will choose the one which is best.  That, of course, led me to the extension: Why confine it to other government moneys and . . . → Read More: Hayek on the Euro

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NGRAM: “Left” & “Right” in OUR modern vocabulary comes out of Moscow and the Comintern

By Greg Ransom, on May 27th, 2012%

Do an NGRAM search for such terms as “leftist” and “rightist” or  “left deviationist”  or “right deviationist” or “left winger” or “right winger”, etc. and it becomes crystal clear that the language of “left” and “right” come into the English language and American conversation in the 1920s and especially the 1930s.

Do a search of a . . . → Read More: NGRAM: “Left” & “Right” in OUR modern vocabulary comes out of Moscow and the Comintern

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USS Titanic ..

By Greg Ransom, on April 14th, 2012%

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Hundreds of “Hayek” Tweets from FriedrichHayek on Twitter

By Greg Ransom, on April 14th, 2012%

Here’s an archive of “Hayek” tweets Twittered from FriedrichHayek on Twitter.

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Google De-Lists “Taking Hayek Seriously”

By Greg Ransom, on April 12th, 2012%

Taking Hayek Seriously has been removed from Google search engine results.

Anyone have any idea why that would have happened?

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VIDEO: Ideas Having Sex – How the Extensive Exchange of Objects Leads to Innovation

By Greg Ransom, on April 6th, 2012%

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F. A, Hayek vs the Efficient Markets Hypothesis

By Greg Ransom, on March 25th, 2012%

“The general fact that booms have always appeared with a great increase of investment, a large part of which proved to be erroneous [is part of the basis for asserting that expectations regarding the future can be systematically mistaken].” — F. A. Hayek

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Bust Unveiled in Peru

By Greg Ransom, on March 22nd, 2012%

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