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BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Keynes Vs. Hayek


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What caused the financial mess we’re in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real savings rather than increased public spending or artificially low interest rates. Keynes’s biographer, Professor Lord Skidelsky, will take on modern day followers […]

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LSE Hayek Lecture 2010: Prof Jesús Huerta de Soto


LSE Hayek Lecture 2010: Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto from Cobden Centre on Vimeo. See also his books: Money, Bank Credit and Economic Cycles (PDF, buy) Socialism, Economic Calculation and Entrepreneurship (buy)

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Honest Money and the Future of Banking


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As reported by The Cobden Centre, on Thursday, Jesús Huerta de Soto gave the 2010 Hayek lecture at the London School of Economics. You can find the text of his speech here and a podcast of his preview interview here. A video will follow in due course. Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Libertarian Alliance Conference 2010 entitled Honest Money and the Future of Banking. Please click the image below for the slides. Video footage of my presentation will be […]

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