Talk:Friedrich Hayek/Archive1

Hayek made the point
Hayek made the point over and over that a little bit of central planning is not a slippery slope to totalitarianism. Yet, that myth is reproduced in the opening paragraph. The book's newest edition makes that point in the intro as well.
 * This point could use clarification. Hayek does in fact make this argument TRTS, but this is often straw manned by both proponents and critics into "All regulations and welfare = evil." The difference is that he used central planning to mean economic intervention in order to move society toward some goal, not all intervention (and he supported welfare programs as mentioned as well as other regulations such as anti-pollution laws.) Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 22:02, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Price-gouging?
The articles says that "[h]is idea of prices as information necessary to solve the calculation problem was very influential, albeit limited in reality to cases where there is no collusion, price-gouging, etc." Isn't price-gouging during emergencies actually a good example of the "price as information"-mechanism that Hayek is a proponent of? This video, for instance, is entirely in compliance with Hayek's line of reasoning as I see it. Whether Zwolinski (and Hayek) are right are, of course, a matter of contention, but I don't think Hayek would have seen "price-gouging" as an example of the "price as information"-mechanism not functioning properly. 83.191.79.217 (talk) 12:51, 21 November 2012 (UTC)