Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain

Re:Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain by chrismealy on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:45PM (#14055758)

It was in his address to the first meeting of the Mont Perelin Society IIRC. I'll look it up later.

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Re:Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain by msgilligan on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:20PM (#14056265)

That would be much appreciated.

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Re:Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain by chrismealy on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:35PM (#14056907)

Here it is (from "Individualism and Economic Order")

"the freedom of the individual by no means need be extended to give all these freedoms to organized groups of individuals, and even that it may on occasion be the duty of government to protect the individual against organized groups."

https://goo.gl/JnftDO

You can see from the essay why a lot of right-wing American businessmen were disappointed in Hayek.

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Re:Friedrich Hayek and the Collective Brain by msgilligan on Friday April 07, 2017 @02:21AM (#14057553)

Thanks for that. Interesting, but not too surprising to anyone who has read much Hayek. Nuanced, of course.

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