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Alan O. Ebenstein

Geburtstag: 28. Mai 1959

Alan Oliver Ebenstein is an American political scientist, educator and author, known from his biographical works on Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. Wikipedia

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„He saw much good in inherited institutions, and yet, at the same time, he also saw the desirability and necessity of change.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
Kontext: Hayek’s approach was largely Burkean. He saw much good in inherited institutions, and yet, at the same time, he also saw the desirability and necessity of change.

„Friedrich Hayek was the greatest political philosopher of liberty during the twentieth century.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
Kontext: Hayek died in Freiburg, Germany, on March 23, 1992, less than two months shy of his ninety-third birthday. After 1985, he was unable to work and lost contact with almost all friends and associates. In his last years, almost the only people with whom he had regular contact were his wife, Helene; secretary Charlotte Cubitt, whom he always called “Mrs. Cubitt”; children Larry and Christine Hayek; and Bartley. Hayek was grateful to Cubitt for her assistance from 1977 to 1992. He inscribed in her copy of The Fatal Conceit in 1990: “In gratitude for all her help over so many years F. A. Hayek.”
During his last years, he had periods of more and less lucidity, as well as being ill and depressed. Lord Harris of the Institute of Economic Affairs wrote in his obituary of Hayek that “by 1989 the great man had lost touch with affairs.” He was buried in Vienna, the place of his birth.
[... ] Friedrich Hayek was the greatest political philosopher of liberty during the twentieth century.

„The General Theory is at once both a book of economic theory and a font of economic prejudices—there are probably few academics in economics and political science who do not have an opinion of it, whether they have read it or not. It has reached the status—which it obtained almost immediately—where the fact of its existence is as important, if not more important, than what it actually says.“

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— Alan O. Ebenstein

Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Hayek opposed not merely Keynes’s policy recommendations, but his technical method.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„The time component of economic production became vital in Hayek’s work in economic theory. Essentially, his economic work could be said to rest on the idea that the price system is a method for coordinating economic activity through time.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Hayek never really departed from the essential economic theory that he developed during the 1920s, although he expanded and deepened his analysis.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Hayek, highly influenced by Mach as a young man, began reading him immediately following his return from service in World War I. He remarked about four decades later that he was “stimulated by Mach’s work to study psychology and the physiology of the senses,” though his interest in these areas derived as much from disagreement as agreement with Mach’s work.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Keynes ultimately placed his hopes for good government in exceptional men. The focus in Hayek’s work was rules.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„His epistemology began from a phenomenalist base. The philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach was very important in Hayek’s development and to the atmosphere at the University of Vienna when Hayek was a student there.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„True and false individualism differ, according to Hayek, not primarily about values but about facts. The question of how societies are actually ordered or organized separates them: Are communities created, or do they evolve? The answer is obviously some combination of the two, but the relative weighting is of the greatest importance.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Stemming from the Germanic philosophical heritage, Hayek was likely to place more emphasis on the act of knowing than on objects themselves. Hayek ultimately followed Kant in his ontological conception of reality—he thought that mind impresses order on existence.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Indeed, Hayek’s later monetary work constitutes some of his most creative practical policy suggestions, though his thought in the area was, by his own admission, undeveloped.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Hayek had high regard for Marx in technical economic theory and considered him a predecessor in his business cycle theory. […] It was not in technical economic theory that the classical Austrians disagreed with Marx. So towering a figure in history is Marx that discussion of his thought in summary form is always difficult, for there is so much that he said and that others have said about him. At the same time, so tendentious, ill-spirited, and just plain wrong a thinker was Marx that it is surprising that he may have had some of the influence attributed to him. Hayek’s opposition to Marx was in the realm of practical political emanations from Marx’s thought. Here he considered Marx’s influence to have been wholly pernicious.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„The history of the Austrian school remains unfinished, and what happens in the future may influence interpretations of the past as much as what has already occurred. An increasing number of economists, however, believe that a reconceptualization of the role the Austrian school has played in academic economics from the 1870s to the present would be more accurate than the prevailing view.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Hayek expressed more fully and deeply than Mises the epistemological argument for free market order. The crucial issue for Hayek became not that without prices individuals cannot calculate (though he thought this to be the case), but that the division of knowledge renders centralized control of an economy or society impossible.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Hayek’s essential political philosophy was that liberty is the supremacy of law. To some, this may appear a paradoxical conception of liberty, for liberty is too often considered to be the absence of law. This, however, was the exact opposite of Hayek’s view. He thought that liberty is not possible without law. Right law is liberty.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„While it is possible to imagine Mises without Hayek, it is not possible to imagine Hayek without Mises.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Hayek expressed the greatest praise for Popper. Whether this was Hayek’s ultimate view or a reflection of a deep, though subordinate, strain of personal modesty and humility that ran through him is an open question. Hayek’s support was vital in Popper’s career. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hayek was involved with an unsuccessful effort to obtain the Nobel Prize in Literature for Popper.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Hayek emphasized the importance of rules. He thought that what society should do is not to direct the individual in his or her particular actions, but to create a metaphysical structure, as it were, enforced by rules or laws, that create stable expectations and thus allow rational action.“

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— Alan O. Ebenstein

Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

„Placement of both Hayek and Mill in the liberal tradition is suspect to many historians of political thought for various reasons. First, Mill also expressed socialist sentiments, so to classify him as a liberal has seemed inaccurate to some more right-inclined liberals. Second, Hayek is sometimes considered more a conservative by left-inclined liberals, and not in the liberal tradition as it has evolved. Nonetheless, Mill and Hayek were the two greatest liberals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.“

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Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

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