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Thinker
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian-born economist and social theorist who argued that dispersed knowledge makes central planning unworkable and that grown rules and markets form spontaneous orders; Nobel laureate 1974.
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Key ideas
TheorySpontaneous orderHayek's idea that large-scale social coordination can emerge from many individuals following general rules, without any person or authority designing the whole.ConceptPolycentric lawA legal order in which several overlapping providers of rules and adjudication coexist, rather than one territorial monopoly.IdeologyLibertarianismA political philosophy that gives priority to individual liberty and voluntary exchange, typically defending a minimal state.
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- 2026-10-23rev 1 — Seed import