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* The good Hayek of the price system as a discovery and information transmission mechanism, of the importance of entrepreneurship, and of private property and the rechstaat as guarantees of individual liberty.
The good Hayek of the price system as a discovery and information transmission mechanism, of the importance of entrepreneurship, and of private property and the rechstaat as guarantees of individual liberty.
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* The bad Hayek who prefers Augusto Pinochet to Helmut Schmidt.
 
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* The worse Hayek who had his head completely up his posterior on economic policy during the Great Depression.
The bad Hayek who prefers Augusto Pinochet to Helmut Schmidt.
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* The worst-of-all Hayek. The one who when Keynes praises the Road to Serfdom and pronounces himself in "not just agreement, but deeply moved agreement with it" responds "no you are not!"{{Links}}
 
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The worse Hayek who had his head completely up his posterior on economic policy during the Great Depression.
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The worst-of-all Hayek. The one who when Keynes praises the Road to Serfdom and pronounces himself in "not just agreement, but deeply moved agreement with it" responds "no you are not!"{{Links}}
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| cite = [[Brad DeLong]], {{Link | Daniel Kuehn: Maynard, Fred, Gus and Ralph on the History of Macroeconomics}}.
 
| cite = [[Brad DeLong]], {{Link | Daniel Kuehn: Maynard, Fred, Gus and Ralph on the History of Macroeconomics}}.
 
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