Då jag läste Karen Horns intervjubok Roads to Wisdom: Conversations with Ten Nobel Laureates in Economics fann jag det intressant att notera, att åtminstone fyra av de intervjuade uttalade sig om en annan ekonomipristagare, F. A. Hayek. Tre verkar positivt inställda, en är tydligt negativ:

Douglass North:

I mentioned Friedrich August von Hayek earlier. Did he leave a mark on you?
Oh yes. … He still seems to me the greatest economist of the twentieth century, and by a long way. If you look for people who really want to try to understand the world, Hayek came closer to that ideal than anybody who has ever lived.

Vernon Smith:

Who is your favorite economist today?
Friedrich Hayek is probably the person that I most admire, largely because late in life, I discovered how relevant his comments were to experimental economics. … And Reinhard Selten, a wonderful man with an intense curiosity. He ranks second after Hayek.

Edmund Phelps:

What was the most important theoretical breakthrough?
Of course, Adam Smith brought about a breakthrough. It is impossible to exaggerate his importance. Also, in the 20th century, the theories of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek.

Kenneth Arrow:

In your mind, what has been the most misleading theoretical approach in economics?
The Austrian a priori dogmatism (von Mises especially; Hayek, to a lesser degree).

Jag kan aldrig riktigt bestämma mig hur jag ser på Hayek, men det faktum att jag relativt ofta funderar på saken gör att jag måste anse honom läsvärd.

Se även det tidigare inlägget ”Hayeks ekonomiska insikter”.