We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Economists
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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