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Hayek is a puzzle. Certainly he started out as one for me, now some twenty-odd years ago.

— Bruce Caldwell Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004)

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He linked the notion of a spontaneous order that forms when agents follow (often simple) rules with the idea of complex systems in the 1950s. This was a critical breakthrough, for it allowed him to drop the old natural science-social science dichotomy ...

Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004)

There are two elements of Hayek’s background that justify our considering him an Austrian economist: first, that he was raised and went to university in Vienna in the first three decades of the twentieth century, and second, that when he finally decided on economics as his field of study, he was trained within the Austrian tradition in economics.

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