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	'''Friedrich Hayek''' wrote ''The Road to Serfdom'', the book that launched a thousand libertarian anime profiles, and spent his career pretending economics started in 1871 because everything before that (~~you know,~~ the labor theory of value, Marx finishing what Smith and Ricardo started) was too inconvenient.		'''Friedrich Hayek''' wrote ''The Road to Serfdom'' — the book that launched a thousand libertarian anime profiles — and spent his career pretending economics started in 1871, because everything before that (the labor theory of value, Marx finishing what Smith and Ricardo started) was too inconvenient.

	== Haz on him ==		== Haz on him ==
	Asked directly ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/498f1c60-eac5-4df7-b192-1edb95365f2d/ DOMINATING LIBS/N*ZIS/GROYPERS/OPPS stream]): "What is your take on Hayek?" — "I don't really like that guy. I'm not particularly fond of him." (The questioner recalled an earlier stream where Hayek got some credit — "there's always granules. There's always small granules and parts of cows, if you will.")		Asked directly ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/498f1c60-eac5-4df7-b192-1edb95365f2d/ DOMINATING LIBS/N*ZIS/GROYPERS/OPPS stream]): "What is your take on Hayek?" — "I don't really like that guy. I'm not particularly fond of him." (The questioner recalled an earlier stream where Hayek got some credit — "there's always granules. There's always small granules and parts of cows, if you will.")

	The school's ~~actual~~ function ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/78727f1b-bfd6-49fc-863e-bf67603855f7/ MASSIVE DEBATE ROYALE]): "Marx so thoroughly critiqued the classical school, brought classical political economy to its logical conclusion, that the bourgeoisie needed a more subjectivist, pseudoscientific economic science to explain why capitalism is the best — and this is where you get folks like Hayek and Milton Friedman." Classical economy asked where wealth comes from; Hayek changed the subject to vibes and prices.		The school's function ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/78727f1b-bfd6-49fc-863e-bf67603855f7/ MASSIVE DEBATE ROYALE stream]): "Marx so thoroughly critiqued the classical school, brought classical political economy to its logical conclusion, that the bourgeoisie needed a more subjectivist, pseudoscientific economic science to explain why capitalism is the best — and this is where you get folks like Hayek and Milton Friedman." Classical economy asked where wealth comes from; Hayek changed the subject to vibes and prices.

	Cultural legacy: ''Road to Serfdom'' is the book some guy read in 1971 and then an entire identity formed around it ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared/fqsih0ynb7e/ Kanye's CHALLENGE stream]) — [[Ludwig von Mises]]'s magic-thinking with better PR ~~([[Economic Calculation Problem]])~~.		Cultural legacy: ''Road to Serfdom'' is the book some guy read in 1971 and then an entire identity formed around it ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared/fqsih0ynb7e/ Kanye's CHALLENGE stream]) — [[Ludwig von Mises]]'s magic-thinking with better PR.

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[~~Milton Friedman~~]]		* [[Economic Calculation Problem]]

	== References ==		== References ==

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	'''Friedrich Hayek''' ~~— author of~~ ''The Road to Serfdom'' and~~, with Milton Friedman~~, the ~~intellectual supply~~ of ~~postwar market liberalism — is treated by Haz Al-Din as the pseudoscientific replacement for the classical political economy~~ Marx ~~completed~~.		'''Friedrich Hayek''' wrote ''The Road to Serfdom'', the book that launched a thousand libertarian anime profiles, and spent his career pretending economics started in 1871 because everything before that (you know, the labor theory of value, Marx finishing what Smith and Ricardo started) was too inconvenient.

	== ~~From the streams~~ ==		== Haz on him ==
	* Asked directly ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/498f1c60-eac5-4df7-b192-1edb95365f2d/ DOMINATING LIBS/N*ZIS/GROYPERS/OPPS stream]): "What is your take on Hayek~~, the guy who wrote The Road to Serfdom~~?" — "I don't really like that guy. I'm not particularly fond of him." (~~Noting with amusement the~~ questioner ~~remembered~~ an earlier stream where ~~Haz granted~~ Hayek ~~"granules" of~~ credit — "there's always granules and parts of cows, if you will" ~~— partial truths inside ideological wholes.~~)		Asked directly ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/498f1c60-eac5-4df7-b192-1edb95365f2d/ DOMINATING LIBS/N*ZIS/GROYPERS/OPPS stream]): "What is your take on Hayek?" — "I don't really like that guy. I'm not particularly fond of him." (The questioner recalled an earlier stream where Hayek got some credit — "there's always granules. There's always small granules and parts of cows, if you will.")
	* The school's function ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/78727f1b-bfd6-49fc-863e-bf67603855f7/ MASSIVE DEBATE ROYALE]): "Marx so thoroughly critiqued the classical school, brought classical political economy to its logical conclusion, that the bourgeoisie needed a more subjectivist, pseudoscientific economic 'science' to explain why capitalism is the best — and this is where you get folks like Hayek and Milton Friedman." Classical economy asked where wealth ~~and value come~~ from; ~~the Austrians and Chicagoans~~ changed the subject to ~~preference~~ and ~~price~~.
	* Cultural legacy: ''Road to Serfdom'' as the ~~founding text of the American libertarian movement~~ ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared/fqsih0ynb7e/ Kanye's CHALLENGE stream]).		The school's actual function ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/78727f1b-bfd6-49fc-863e-bf67603855f7/ MASSIVE DEBATE ROYALE]): "Marx so thoroughly critiqued the classical school, brought classical political economy to its logical conclusion, that the bourgeoisie needed a more subjectivist, pseudoscientific economic science to explain why capitalism is the best — and this is where you get folks like Hayek and Milton Friedman." Classical economy asked where wealth comes from; Hayek changed the subject to vibes and prices.

			Cultural legacy: ''Road to Serfdom'' is the book some guy read in 1971 and then an entire identity formed around it ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared/fqsih0ynb7e/ Kanye's CHALLENGE stream]) — [[Ludwig von Mises]]'s magic-thinking with better PR ([[Economic Calculation Problem]]).

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Milton Friedman]]		* [[Milton Friedman]]
	* [[Economic Calculation Problem]]

	== References ==		== References ==

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	'''Friedrich ~~August von~~ Hayek''' ~~(1899–1992) was an Austrian-British economist~~ and ~~political philosopher, Mises' most famous student~~, ~~Nobel laureate (1974)~~, ~~and patron saint~~ of ~~neoliberalism~~.		'''Friedrich Hayek''' — author of ''The Road to Serfdom'' and, with Milton Friedman, the intellectual supply of postwar market liberalism — is treated by Haz Al-Din as the pseudoscientific replacement for the classical political economy Marx completed.

	== ~~Doctrines~~ ==		== From the streams ==
	* ~~Knowledge problem: prices aggregate dispersed tacit knowledge no planner can possess~~ (~~see~~ [~~[Economic Calculation Problem]~~]).		* Asked directly ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/498f1c60-eac5-4df7-b192-1edb95365f2d/ DOMINATING LIBS/N*ZIS/GROYPERS/OPPS stream]): "What is your take on Hayek, the guy who wrote The Road to Serfdom?" — "I don't really like that guy. I'm not particularly fond of him." (Noting with amusement the questioner remembered an earlier stream where Haz granted Hayek "granules" of credit — "there's always granules and parts of cows, if you will" — partial truths inside ideological wholes.)
	* Spontaneous order: ~~beneficial institutions evolve; constructivist rationalism (planning) destroys them.~~		* The school's function ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/78727f1b-bfd6-49fc-863e-bf67603855f7/ MASSIVE DEBATE ROYALE]): "Marx so thoroughly critiqued the classical school, brought classical political economy to its logical conclusion, that the bourgeoisie needed a more subjectivist, pseudoscientific economic 'science' to explain why capitalism is the best — and this is where you get folks like Hayek and Milton Friedman." Classical economy asked where wealth and value come from; the Austrians and Chicagoans changed the subject to preference and price.
	* ''The Road to Serfdom'' (~~1944~~)~~: any planning slides toward totalitarianism.~~		* Cultural legacy: ''Road to Serfdom'' as the founding text of the American libertarian movement ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared/fqsih0ynb7e/ Kanye's CHALLENGE stream]).
	* ~~Denationalization of money~~ (~~1976~~): ~~competing private currencies.~~

	~~== Organization of neoliberalism ==~~
	~~Hayek founded~~ the ~~Mont Pelerin Society (1947)~~, the ~~coordination point for rebuilding laissez-faire ideology after its depression-era discredit~~. ~~The~~ "~~neoliberal thought collective" (Mirowski's term) then captured academia, foundations,~~ and ~~eventually Thatcher/Reagan governments~~.

	~~== Critique ==~~
	~~Marxists note the asymmetry~~: ~~Hayek~~'~~s epistemology demolishes omniscient planning but never touches corporate internal planning or finance~~'~~s power over states. "Spontaneous order" mystifies historically specific capitalist relations~~ as ~~natural law. Infrared treats him as high priest~~ of the [~~[Anglo Box~~]~~] worldview~~.

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Ludwig von Mises]]
	* [[Milton Friedman]]		* [[Milton Friedman]]
			* [[Economic Calculation Problem]]

	== References ==		== References ==
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'''Friedrich August von Hayek''' (1899–1992) was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher, Mises' most famous student, Nobel laureate (1974), and patron saint of neoliberalism.

== Doctrines ==
* Knowledge problem: prices aggregate dispersed tacit knowledge no planner can possess (see [[Economic Calculation Problem]]).
* Spontaneous order: beneficial institutions evolve; constructivist rationalism (planning) destroys them.
* ''The Road to Serfdom'' (1944): any planning slides toward totalitarianism.
* Denationalization of money (1976): competing private currencies.

== Organization of neoliberalism ==
Hayek founded the Mont Pelerin Society (1947), the coordination point for rebuilding laissez-faire ideology after its depression-era discredit. The "neoliberal thought collective" (Mirowski's term) then captured academia, foundations, and eventually Thatcher/Reagan governments.

== Critique ==
Marxists note the asymmetry: Hayek's epistemology demolishes omniscient planning but never touches corporate internal planning or finance's power over states. "Spontaneous order" mystifies historically specific capitalist relations as natural law. Infrared treats him as high priest of the [[Anglo Box]] worldview.

== See also ==
* [[Ludwig von Mises]]
* [[Milton Friedman]]

== References ==
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