Hayek: A Collaborative Biography by Robert Leeson

Author:Robert Leeson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

What does the ‘free’ market sound like? Hayek (1975) told an American Enterprise Institute audience that his opponents (in this instance, Keynesians) had ‘forfeited their right to be heard.’ Two years earlier, Pinochet decided that his opponents (those promoting socialist measures for redistribution) had also forfeited their right to be heard: 3197 Chileans were murdered, 20,000 were officially exiled and their passport was marked with an ‘L’ and about 180,000 fled into exile (Montes 2015, 7; Wright and Oñate 2005). Hayek was contemptuous of what he dismissed as Amnesty International’s ‘bunch of leftists’ who provided evidence about the Junta’s human rights abuses (Farrant and McPhail 2017).

Fifty years after Mises’ (1985 [1927]) Liberalism in the Classical Tradition, Hayek (2013 [1979], 483) sent his ‘Model Constitution’ to Pinochet: ‘A constitution like the one here proposed would of course make all socialist measures for redistribution impossible.’ In Chile, Hayek (1981) also stated thatdemocracy needs ‘a good cleaning’ by strong governments … when I refer to this dictatorial power, I am talking of a transitional period, solely. As a means of establishing a stable democracy and liberty, clean of impurities. This is the only way I can justify it - and recommend it.

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