Category Archives: Quotable Hayek

Hayek on Money Disturbing Equilibrium

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Greg Ransom

“It is one of the oldest facts known to economic theory that changes in the quantity of money, or changes in the ‘velocity of circulation’ (or the ‘demand for money’), will deflect the rate of interest from its equilibrium position … Continue reading →

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HAYEK QUOTE OF THE DAY

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Greg Ransom

We have to bring the empirical factor of learning into the frame of the logic of choice in order to turn economics into a science not merely of individual action but what happens in the market. — F. A. HAYEK

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quote: George Will on Hayek & a Free Society

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Greg Ransom

There never is a moment when an open society that wants to remain such does not need the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who said: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little … Continue reading →

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