F. A. Hayek: Dogmatic Skeptic

In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 41, S. 346-353

Abstract

A critical review of the free-market liberalism ideas of economist Friedrich A. von Hayek (d. 1992), who espoused a free-market economy (as opposed to central planning), limited government, & deregulation. Von Hayek had a great influence on the thinking of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher & US President Ronald Reagan & their supporters during the 1970s & 1980s. Discussed here are von Hayek's antisocialist views & the personal & social background & political philosophies on which his outlook was based. It is suggested that his scholarly skepticism was directed exclusively toward arguments that opposed his own, & that he was really a clever dogmatist who rejected all ideas contradictory to his. J. W. Stanton