What is Friedrich Hayek?
{{Nobelprize|Economics}} {{Infobox Philosopher | color = firebrick |region = Western [[philosophy]] |era = [[20th-century philosophy]] | image = Friedrich_Hayek_portrait.jpg | image_size = 200px |name = Friedrich August von Hayek |birth = {{birth date|1899|5|8}}<br />[[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]] |death = {{death date and age|1992|3|23|1899|5|8}}<br />[[Freiburg]], [[Germany]] |school_tradition = [[British Whig Party|Old Whig]], [[Classical liberalism]] and [[Austrian School]] |main_interests = [[Economics]], [[social philosophy]], [[political philosophy]], [[philosophy of mind]] |influences = [[Bernard Mandeville]], [[David Hume]], [[Adam Ferguson]], [[John Locke]], [[Edmund Burke]], [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]], [[Carl Menger]], [[Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk]], [[Friedrich von Wieser]], [[Ludwig von Mises]], [[Karl Popper]] |influenced = [[Karl Popper]], [[Konrad Lorenz]], [[Robert Nozick]], [[Israel Kirzner]], [[Murray Rothbard]], [[John Hicks]], [[George Stigler]], [[Ben Reid]], [[Milton Friedman]], [[Michael Novak]], [[Barry Goldwater]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Thomas Sowell]], [[Sir Keith Joseph]] [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[Bruno Leoni]], [[Giovanni Sartori]], [[Atilla Yayla]], [[Bruce Caldwell]], [[John Gray (LSE)|John Gray]], [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Ludwig Erhard]], [[Ron Paul]], [[Alan Greenspan]] |notable_ideas = [[Economic calculation problem]], [[Catallactics|Catallaxy]], [[Extended order]], [[Dispersed knowledge]], [[Spontaneous order]]|}} '''Friedrich August von Hayek''', [[Order of the Companions of Honour|CH]] (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an [[Austria]]n-[[United Kingdom|British]] [[economist]] and [[politics|political]] [[Philosophy|philosopher]]. He became known because he strongly defended [[liberalism]] and [[free market|free-market]] [[capitalism]]. He was against too much central control of the [[economy]] and [[society]]. He thought that forms of government like [[socialism]] were not good for the economy, and damaged freedom of the individual. Hayek'