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Why Friedrich Hayek is making a comeback

By Alliance Alert

Russ Roberts writing in the Wall Street Journal: "[N]ow that the stimulus has barely dented the unemployment rate, and with government spending and deficits soaring, it's natural to turn to Hayek. He championed four important ideas worth thinking about in these troubled times. ... Despite the caricatures of his critics, Hayek never said that totalitarianism was the inevitable result of expanding government's role in the economy. He simply warned us of the possibility and the costs of heading in that direction. We should heed his warning. I don't know if we're on the road to serfdom, but wherever we're headed, Hayek would certainly counsel us to turn around."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).