Happy 110th Birthday, Friedrich von Hayek

Dr. Norman Horn
May 8, 2009
Categories: News, President's Blog
Topics: economics, Hayek, socialism

If Hayek were still with us, we would be celebrating his 110th birthday today. In his honor, I will be wearing my Hayek “Collectivism is Slavery” t-shirt, and will toast to his splendid intellect and seminal contribution to economics and political thought. Why not today read one of his most important essays and learn about the “knowledge problem” in socialism? It would be quite fitting given the current status of American politics, when pseudo-dictatorship known as the Oval Office thinks it knows how best to run our lives. And just so I am clear to any Obama-leaning visitors, I include Bush in that statement as well. I’m an equal-opportunity president-basher…

Your weekend reading: The Use of Knowledge in Society

Dr. Norman Horn

Norman is the founder and President of the Libertarian Christian Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Theological Studies from Lipscomb University. He has been widely published in multiple fields and has written for the Washington Post, Relevant Magazine, Young American Revolution, the Journal of Research of NIST, and UV Solutions Magazine.

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