Austrian People of Moravian German Descent - Kurt Godel, Joseph Schumpeter, Franz Schubert, Friedrich Hayek, Fritz Lang, Ernst Mach, Adolf Loos (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Kurt Godel, Joseph Schumpeter, Franz Schubert, Friedrich Hayek, Fritz Lang, Ernst Mach, Adolf Loos, Alfred Brendel, Karl Renner, Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Josef Hoffmann, Anton Lehar, Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, Count Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf, Baron Franz von Pillersdorf, Rudolf Eitelberger, Hermann Muckler, Vinzenz Eduard Milde, Max Maretzek, Franz Bauer, Hans Tuppy, Hugo Kauder, Adolf Scharf, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Anton Schindler, Ferdinand Schubert, Emanuel von Friedrichsthal, Hans Krebs, Hermann Pokorny, Leopold von Schrotter, Johannes Matthias Sperger, Anton Schrotter von Kristelli, Leopold Janauschek, Johann Joseph Thalherr, Sigmund Friedl, Leander Czerny, Heinrich Jalowetz, Anton Freissler, Richard von Schaukal, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Richard Schmitz, Ernst Straussler, Ernst Spath, Ferdinand Troyer, Hugo Jury, August von Hayek, Johann Gottlieb, Wilhelm Jahn. Excerpt: Friedrich August Hayek CH (German pronunciation: ) (8 May 1899 - 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century, winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974. Along with his mentor Ludwig von Mises, he was an important contributor to the Austrian school of political economy. Hayek's account of how changing prices communicate signals which enable individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics. Hayek also produced significant work in the fields of systems thinking, jurisprudence, neuroscience and the history of ideas. Hayek served in World War I, and said that his experience in the war and hi...