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Friedrich August von Hayek CH (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an Austrian (and, after 1938, British) economist, philosopher and intellectual known throughout the world for his arguments about the ability of prices to aggregate knowledge, promoting classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century,[1] One of the most influential members of the Austrian School of economics and mainstream economics,[2] he also made significant contributions in the fields of jurisprudence and cognitive science.