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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Friedrich Hayek, Carl Menger, Murray Rothbard, James M. Buchanan, Gary North, Peter Schiff, Richard Ebeling, Henry Hazlitt, Ludwig von Mises, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Frank Fetter, Lawrence Reed, Mark Skousen, Kevin Carson, Thomas Woods, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Robert P. Murphy, Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, Walter Block, Lawrence H. White, Peter Leeson, Mark Thornton, Robert Higgs, Fritz Machlup, Steve Baker, Steven Horwitz, David Prychitko, Israel Kirzner, Friedrich von Wieser, Peter Boettke, Benjamin Anderson, Thomas DiLorenzo, George Selgin, Hans Sennholz, Joseph Salerno, Jaroslav Romanchuk, William Harold Hutt, George Reisman, Ludwig Lachmann, Jesus Huerta de Soto, Yuri Maltsev, Edward Stringham, Gottfried Haberler, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Lawrence Fertig, Peter G. Klein, Don Lavoie, Gene Callahan, Ralph Raico, Anthony de Jasay, Kurt Richebacher, List of Austrian School economists, Bruce Caldwell, Roger Garrison, David Gordon, Frederick Nymeyer, William L. Anderson, Pascal Salin, Ernest C. Pasour, Randall Gregory Holcombe, Henri Lepage. Excerpt: Friedrich August Hayek CH (German pronunciation: ) (8 May 1899 - 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century, winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974. Along with his mentor Ludwig von Mises, he was an important contributor to the Austrian school of political economy. Hayek's account of how changing prices communicate signals which enable individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics. Hayek also produced significant work i...
