POLITICAL THEORY – Friedrich Hayek
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The leading theorist of modern right-wing political movements was an Austrian economist called Friedrich Hayek. For more on this and other great thinkers, see our new book: http://bit.ly/29URGvS Watch more films on PHILOSOPHY in our playlist: http://bit.ly/1gfQCEu If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://bit.ly/29fjZTV FURTHER READING "Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) was a political economist who had a tremendous influence upon how people in capitalist societies understand the concept of liberty. Controversially, for Hayek ‘liberty’ did not mean democracy or a commitment to a set of ‘liberal’ ideals. Rather, Hayek believed that liberty was ‘a policy which deliberately adopts competition, markets and prices as its ordering principles’......" You can read more about this an other topics on our blog TheBookofLife.org: http://bit.ly/29ov8pg SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Written by Chris Grocott http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/people/chris-grocott https://www.leicester.academia.edu/chrisgrocott Produced in collaboration with Reflective Films http://www.reflectivefilms.co.uk/
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It's absolutely laughable when internet troll pseudo intellectuals pretend to criticize the world's greatest thinkers! It would like a I IV V blues bar band going on about all of the ways Mozart got it wrong... hint, no one cares what you think!
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Marxism is strong on this comment thread
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A true intellectual titan and genius.
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Economic Theory - Milton Friedman
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perhaps we could see a vedio on his mentor Ludwig von Mises in the future. maybe I don't know. but it would be interesting to see.
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Excellent! Thank you for doing this video, Alain. One really tiny criticism is that he wasn't so much neoliberal as he was part of the austrian school of economics of which von mises, he and rothbard were the biggest influencers of the 20th century. But the Chicago school was (and is?) quite neoliberal so it was a fair statement.
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Philosophy - Ayn Rand
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Hayek was wrong in his theory that a wellfarestate would lead to "serfdom." According to him the scandinavian countries were on the way to becoming dictatorships by getting people used to getting help from the state. European countries with strong welfare systems remain strong democracies. But countries without them ...
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Very biased against Hayek. Bad show.
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There's a surprising number of butthurt socialists in the comments. Jeez...
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Keynes
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Do political theory of Adolf Hitler
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Make a video on Ludwig Von Mises and Murray Rothbard too!
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3:32 thats not Hayek that's Rothbard
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Is this the guy that started austrian economics?
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Please do Milton Friedman.
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Didn't care for this, sounds like you were somewhat praising Hayek and his bastion of nativity in the benevolence of competition, as corrupt as it often turns.
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I dont understand the point about him being comfortable with dictatorships. The statement comes in at around the 7 minute mark. Is there an academic source for that assertion ?
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Can you do a video on John Maynard Keynes please!
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