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Why did the economics department turn down Hayek's employment?
sick of Hutchins' meddling
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What did Hayek serve on after his initial rejection?
Committee on Social Thought
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Which of Hayek's works had a profound influence on those at the University of Chicago?
The Road to Serfdom
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Who played a critical role in the formation of the Law and Society program?
Aaron Director
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What group did Hayek form with three other people?
Mont Pèlerin Society
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What was the group that Friedman and Hayek supported later renamed to?
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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What topic were Hayek's next two books going to cover?
the liberal order
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Which of Hayek's books was not as well received as The Road to Serfdom?
The Constitution of Liberty
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As of the release of his 1960 book, how long had it been since The Road to Serfdom was released?
sixteen years
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What was the title of the his 1960 book's second chapter?
The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization
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How did Hayek feel about the success of the book he released in 1960?
disappointed
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What country did Hayek move to in 1962?
West Germany
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What is the name of the book Hayek started upon his arrival in West Germany?
Law, Legislation and Liberty
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Where did Hayek spend an entire year after his retirement?
University of California, Los Angeles
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When was the final volume of Law, Legislation and Liberty released?
1979
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During his time in Los Angeles, what was the topic of the seminars Hayek taught not related to his new book?
philosophy of social science
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What political party was Margaret Thatcher the head of in 1975?
British Conservative Party
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Who did Thatcher meet with shortly after she was elected as the head of her party?
Hayek
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What path was suggested as the right one for Margaret Thatcher's party by a speaker?
the "middle way"
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Which of Hayek's works did Thatcher produce at the Conservative Research Department?
The Constitution of Liberty
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What was the name of the agreement Hayek criticized in 1977?
Lib-Lab pact
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What did some Liberal politicians claim the pact was meant to do?
discourage socialist legislation
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The agreement Hayek criticized was between the British Labour government and which political party?
British Liberal Party
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What did Hayek believe was lost in the continued empowerment of a socialist government?
all title to the name 'Liberal'
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Which party was criticized for being less concerned about liberty and democracy?
the Conservative Party
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With which political group was David Steel affiliated?
Liberal Party
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Who disagreed with David Steel's statements in 1978
Hayek
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Which type of government was more favorable than others according to Hayek?
limited democracy
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Hayek believed that which type of democracy was the worst of its alternatives?
unlimited
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What group was Hayek inducted into by the Queen of England?
Order of the Companions of Honour
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Who suggest Hayek for the honor of joining the Order?
Margaret Thatcher
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In 1984, what was Margaret Thatcher's position within the British government?
Prime Minister
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How did Hayek wish to be referred to after his 1984 award?
Frederick
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At the end of the same day Hayek met with the Queen of England, what did he say?
"I've just had the happiest day of my life."
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What was the reason given for Hayek's 1991 award from the President?
a "lifetime of looking beyond the horizon"
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Which President presented the award to Hayek?
George H. W. Bush
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Where was Hayek when he died?
Freiburg, Germany
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Where was Hayek buried in relation to his home town of Vienna?
northern outskirts
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Where was The Use of Knowledge in Society published?
American Economic Review
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What is the name of Mises' 1912 book?
Theory of Money and Credit
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Hayek focused most of his economic works on the business cycle, money and what else?
capital
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What work did Hayek produce as a result of studying Mises' book?
Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
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What is the English name for the book Hayek published in 1929?
Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle
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According to Hayek, what was the cause of the banks' wrongful allocation of funds?
artificially low interest rates
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Lionel Robbins came to head which school in 1929?
London School of Economics
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In regards to economics, Lionel Robbins believe English-speaking academics had what?
narrow approach
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Which man's works were mostly the cause of the ''narrow approach''?
Alfred Marshall
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Who was responsible for bringing on Hayek at the LSE?
Lionel Robbins
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What did Nicholas Kaldor say Hayek brought to macroeconomics?
less "facile and superficial" understanding
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Hayek's critical analysis of Keyne's work was published under what title?
Prices and Production
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Apart from easy money, what did Hayek believe unemployment was caused by?
artificially low interest rates
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Who did Keynes turn to for assistance in arguing his point to Hayek?
Piero Sraffa
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According to Nicholas Kaldor, what had Hayek's book created?
"a remarkable crop of critics"
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What was the result of Hayek's Prices and Production?
works were largely ignored
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What is the name of the first book Hayek released to revise his stances from Prices and Production?
Profits, Interest and Investment
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Who was particularly critical of Hayek's work following Prices and Production?
Nicholas Kaldor
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Lionel Robbins' The Great Depression was a result of his support for what?
the Austrian theory of the business cycle
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Who did Keynes' arguments against the Austrian theory of the business cycle eventually influence?
Lionel Robbins
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What topic did Hayek never write a book about as he said he would?
the dynamics of capital
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What topic did Hayek shy away from following Pure Theory of Capital?
macroeconomics
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What did Gunnar Myrdal call Hayek?
an "ideologue"
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Which of Hayeks books did Milton Friedman praise most?
The Road to Serfdom
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Which whom did Hayek share a Nobel prize?
Gunnar Myrdal
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What did Hayek claim those who must distribute resources would lack most?
enough information
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Whose work most notably influenced Hayek's argument regarding resource distribution?
Max Weber
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What is the one way Hayek argued that resource distribution could succeed?
through the price mechanism in free markets
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Other than Max Weber, who was a notable influence to Hayek's statements regarding resource distribution?
Ludwig von Mises
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What did some socialists bring up as a rebuttal to Hayek's resource distribution argument?
general equilibrium theory
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What did socialists believe equilibrium theory invalidated?
Mises's thesis
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According to those who argued against Hayek, what sets planned and free markets apart is what?
who was responsible for solving the equations
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What type of economic system did the socialists want to avoid?
free market
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Which of Hayek's books argued against the socialist price mechanism?
The Use of Knowledge in Society
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Which type of economy did Hayek believe the price mechanism to be less effective with?
central planning
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The arguments presented in The Use of Knowledge in Society created an starting point for who?
Oliver Williamson
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The arguments presented in Hayek's 1945 book were a large reason for being granted what award?
the Nobel prize
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What was the name of the ideology Hayek criticized?
collectivism
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How did Hayek believe collectivism could be maintained?
a central authority
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According to Hayek, what is necessary for the implementation of a socialist economy?
central economic planning
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Hayek believed the requirements for a socialist economy would lead to what?
totalitarianism
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What did Hayek believe was the core responsibility of the state?
maintain the rule of law
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Hayek believed the state could aid the economy by doing what?
creating a "safety net"
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Who did Hayek say economic security should be guaranteed to?
all
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According to Hayek, clothing, food and shelter should be provided to what extent?
sufficient to preserve health
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What sort of system did Hayek propose the government create?
social insurance
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In what economic field of study does Hayek's views differ from those in macroeconomics?
microeconomics
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What is the term used to describe economists following Keynes school of thought?
"Marshallian"
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Whose works inspire the term "Walrasian" in economics?
Abba Lerner
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When did Hayek start working on Abuse of Reason?
During World War II
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What did Hayek specifically aim to expose in Abuse of Reason?
fundamental misconceptions about the social science
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Whose beliefs in scientific philosophy were similar to Hayek's?
Karl Popper
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What did Hayek use to refer to the spread of ignorance and misunderstanding within the social sciences?
scientism
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In scientism, it is typically believed that explanations in science are what?
simple two-variable linear relationships
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In what year was the book published in which Hayek developed Hebbian learning?
1952
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Before he began studying economics, what concept did Hayek come up with that was later featured in his 1952 book?
Hebbian learning
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What did Hayek present in his 1952 book that affected multiple areas of science?
"Hebbian synapse"
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What is the name of the book in which Hayek presented the Hebbian Synapse?
The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology
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When did Hayek begin presenting his ideas on the limits of human knowledge?
the latter half of his career
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What did Hayek want society to function around?
a market order
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What is the responsibility of government in Hayek's market order?
to enforce the legal order
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What would be the cause of the success for the Hayek's ideal free-market?
would be self-regulating
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