Friedrich Hayek Part 2: Hayek and Lockdowns

In this follow up to Part 1—just in time to honour the nearly 80-year anniversary of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom—host Rosemarie Fike is once again joined by economist Donald Boudreaux of George Mason University to discuss how Friedrich Hayek shaped the field of political economy well into the 21st century. They even get into how Hayek would’ve felt about the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown measures taken during.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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