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...foreword to Simon's book, Economist Friedrich A. Hayek says he cannot understand how a man of such outspoken views could have held a high Government post. Simon indeed prides himself on speaking out with all the exuberance of an Alger hero, and although it was always rumored that he was on the brink of being fired, he managed to survive. As Richard Nixon's energy czar, he hoped, in vain, to preside over the liquidation of his own empire. He writes, "There is nothing like becoming an economic planner oneself to learn what is desperately, stupidly wrong...
...somewhat richer and more complicated tradition than some conservatives. I'm not a Lockean. I'm more a Burkean," he says, distinguishing himself from other more libertarian conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman. Of the former, he observes, "He's a philosophic radical. He is, as Hayek is, a classic Whig or liberal. Goldwater is the most optimistic American. He believes that he knows how to produce a kind of frictionless, progressive society. He's as American as Hubert Humphrey--they both are great believers that they know how to make crooked things straight...
Ring in Friedman, ring in Hayek-- It's your road to serfdom, you should like...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Sons of Liberty proposed an alternative reading list for the course in the leaflet, including selections from H.A. Hayek, Nobel Prize winner for Economics...
...leading advocates of the Austrian school are Murray Rothbard and Nobel-laureate Frederiech Hayek. They, along with their colleagues, see little if any role for the government in the economy; they oppose welfare state programs and regulations even more consistently than the Chicago conservatives...