On Jul 11, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > While Hayek, who moved to the University of Chicago in 1950, built an > ardent following of admirers (including Milton Friedman), his fame > gradually waned. By the time he won the Nobel Prize in 1974 he was > largely forgotten by the public and marginalized within his profession. > In graduate programs in the early 1980s, the economist William Easterly > recalled recently on his blog, “Hayek was seen as so far right that you > would be considered a nut to read him.”
Hey, I was one of those nuts as a right-wing undergrad in the early 1970s. Several of us in the Party of the Right read and adored The Road to Serfdom. I can testify that we were perceived as marginal nuts. Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
