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Friedrich A. Hayek  

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  • Born in Austria, Hayek spent the middle part of his career at the London School of Economics (1931–50) before moving to the University of Chicago. His best-known work, The Road to Serfdom (1944), was a passionate defence of the political benefits of free market capitalism. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Hayek, Friedrich A. (1899–1992)]

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