The Tom Woods Show, episode 182.

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Bernie Sanders is Wrong, over at Bernieiswrong.com. Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're going to talk

about F.A. Hayek today. We're going to talk about him as an economist and a social philosopher,

and try to get the true measure of the man. There's some debate about him and his legacy and

what he said and what he stood for and what his accomplishments were. We're going to try to

sort all that out today with Joe Salerno, who is academic vice president of the Meese Institute.

He's a professor of economics at Pace University. And he also holds the John Denson

chair in the economics department at Auburn University, and he also holds the John Denson chair in the economics department at

Auburn University. He is the author of Money, Sound and Unsound. We'll link to that at

Tom Woods.com slash 182. Joe, welcome back to the show. I'm happy to be here, Tom. Let's talk

about Hayek. Great. I had a bunch of listeners ask me about this, or not asked me, but there was a thread in our private

group about Hayek, because I think people just want to know what should I think about

Hayek.

He obviously makes important contributions, but then there are other parts of Hayek that are

downright maddening, and we want to know

how do we assess the guy overall.

So I'd like to start actually maybe with the dullest part, and yet in a way the most important,

if we can say something about Hayek's specific work in economics, because nearly all his

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