The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

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Friedrich Hayek
Born in Vienna in 1899, Hayek was the leading Austrian School economist and foremost defender of liberty. The Road to Serfdom (1944) warned that central planning leads to tyranny. Nobel laureate 1974.
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