FRIEDRICH A HAYEK

Friedrich A Hayek

Friedrich A Hayek

Introduction

CH Friedrich August Hayek, the Austrian-born economist and philosopher known socialist and collectivist thought was against the defense of classical liberalism and free market capitalism. It is the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century are considered as one, won the Nobel Prize in 1974. With his mentor, Ludwig von Mises, political economy, (Birner, 2001, 02) "Austrian School" was an important factor. Account Hayek, the price signals to people like the changes, the economy of their plans, commonly regarded as an important achievement that can communicate to coordinate. Hayek is also the idea of the system, case law, has produced important work in the field of neurological and history of ideas.

Biography of Friedrich A Hayek

Hayes served in the First World War and said the war experience and his career in his own desire to avoid errors caused by lead to war (see below). The first took the job in 1927, Josef Stalin; Trotsky's expulsion of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union consolidated its power in that year. In the same years, the communist insurgency was in many European countries. Totalitarianism, fascism, Germany and Italy was an increase in another form. In addition, the Great Depression of 1929, Hayek's early career began. (Birner, 2001, 02)

Hayek, Vienna, (then Austria-Hungary's capital), the municipal health service was born as the son of a doctor. Hayek, scientists at the beginning of his grandfather took part in the fields of statistics and biology. Father for his services to the state line has been proposed in the ranks of the Austrian nobility. Similarly, the needle of a generation ago was the lowest maternal ancestors. But the 1919 title of nobility are prohibited by law in Austria, and "von Hayek," after the family, the family was simply Hayek. Therefore, after the name of Friedrich Hayek and 1919 picture, Hayek, "not" was Friedrich von Hayek. "Hayek, his father's family to continue the academic tradition, he returned to work a deal estimated to regional botanical botanist. (Birner, 2001, 02)

His mother's side, Hayek is the second cousin, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. His mother often played a girl with Ludwig. As a result of a family relationship, the original German edition published in 1921, Hayek book Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, reading was one of the first.

As a young father on a proposal by Hayek, Hugo de Vries studied the genetic and evolutionary works and philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach. (Birner, 2001, 12) Hayek was taken over by the school or a faculty member of the ethics of Aristotle taught. (Birner, 2001, 12)

Austria-Hungary in 1917 and joined artillery regiment in the army and fought in front of Italy. Multi-war experience, Hayek was a plane as an observer. He survived the war without serious injury and was given encouragement.

Hayek followed the First World War, to avoid errors leading to a stable academic career, decision, Hayek said in his experience: "a decisive influence in World War II 'attention to the problems of political organization that was ...