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Hello fellow Partially examined life fans.

I'm Seth Benzel, an economics PhD candidate at Boston University, and I'm here to introduce

two readings on the intersection of economics and ethics.

The first reading is Frederick Khaik's The Use of Knowledge in Society, and the second

is a Marchus Ends on Ethics and Economics.

Frederick Khaik was born in Austria in 1899.

To the public, he is best remembered for his 1944 Screed Against Socialism, the Road to

Surfdom.

Khaik was a contemporary of Keynes, and they had public intellectual feuds in which Keynes would

argue for more and Haik for less government intervention.

Despite this, the two were personally friendly, and Keynes found lodging for Haik when he

was driven out of London by the Blitz.

Haik won a Nobel Prize in 1974.

The Use of Knowledge in Society written in 1945 argues that decentralized planning via the

coordination mechanism of the price system will bring about better social outcomes than

centralized planning.

Imagine 1945.

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