And were going to continue our discussion today by reviewing the works of Friedrich Hayek John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman whom i consider to be the three most influential economists of the 20th century and of the three, i really consider hayek to be the most influential. He addressed what i call the Knowledge Problem and this seems to me to be perhaps the most important contribution to economics since the time of adam smith. And this is what hayek had to say. About knowledge he said in economics, theres a problem of the division of knowledge. Which is quite analogous, too. And at least as important as the problem of the division of labor put forward by adam smith. But while the latter has been one of the main subjects of investigation ever since the beginning of our science. The former has been as completely neglected. Although it seems to me to be the really central problem of economics. As a social science the problem we pretend to solve is how the spontaneous interaction of
Discussion today by reviewing the works of Friedrich Hayek John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman whom i consider to be the three most influential economists of the 20th century and of the three, i really consider hayek to be the most influential. He addressed what i call the Knowledge Problem and this seems to me to be perhaps the most important contribution to economics since the time of adam smith. And this is what hayek had to say. About knowledge he said in economics, theres a problem of the division of knowledge. Which is quite analogous, too. And at least as important as the problem of the division of labor put forward by adam smith. But while the latter has been one of the main subjects of investigation ever since the beginning of our science. The former has been as completely neglected. Although it seems to me to be the really central problem of economics. As a social science the problem we pretend to solve is how the spontaneous interaction of a number of people each only po
To me to be perhaps the most important contribution to economics since the time of adam smith. And this is what hayek had to say. About knowledge he said in economics, theres a problem of the division of knowledge. Which is quite analogous, too. And at least as important as the problem of the division of labor put forward by adam smith. But while the latter has been one of the main subjects of investigation ever since the beginning of our science. The former has been as completely neglected. Although it seems to me to be the really central problem of economics. As a social science the problem we pretend to solve is how the spontaneous interaction of a number of people each only possessing bits of knowledge. Bring about a state of affairs that corresponds to equilibrium. How can we determine what Economic Production should be when knowledge is divided among all of the millions and tens of millions hundreds of millions billions of people in the world. How do we accommodate divided knowle
And were going to continue our discussion today by reviewing the works of Friedrich Hayek John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman whom i consider to be the three most influential economists of the 20th century and of the three, i really consider hayek to be the most influential. He addressed what i call the Knowledge Problem and this seems to me to be perhaps the most important contribution to economics since the time of adam smith. And this is what hayek had to say. About knowledge he said in economics, theres a problem of the division of knowledge. Which is quite analogous, too. And at least as important as the problem of the division of labor put forward by adam smith. But while the latter has been one of the main subjects of investigation ever since the beginning of our science. The former has been as completely neglected. Although it seems to me to be the really central problem of economics. As a social science the problem we pretend to solve is how the spontaneous interaction of
The works of Friedrich Hayek John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman whom i consider to be the three most influential economists of the 20th century and of the three, i really consider hayek to be the most influential. He addressed what i call the Knowledge Problem and this seems to me to be perhaps the most important contribution to economics since the time of adam smith. And this is what hayek had to say. About knowledge he said in economics, theres a problem of the division of knowledge. Which is quite analogous, too. And at least as important as the problem of the division of labor put forward by adam smith. But while the latter has been one of the main subjects of investigation ever since the beginning of our science. The former has been as completely neglected. Although it seems to me to be the really central problem of economics. As a social science the problem we pretend to solve is how the spontaneous interaction of a number of people each only possessing bits of knowledge. Br