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Friedrich von Hayek  

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  • Friedrich August von Hayek was an Austro-British economist and political philosopher who helped to inspire a shift from Keynesianism to neoliberalism in the late twentieth century. In 1974 he shared the Nobel Prize for economics, and in 1991, he received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Hayek, Friedrich von (1899–1992)]

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