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Christopher Pissarides | Photo by Peter Coy

Economists

Christopher A. Pissarides

  “I know you worry about the deficit but I think you worry about it too much. Keynesianism of the kind that guided policy after the Second World War no longer works, but there are still lessons in it for us. Worrying too much about the deficit in a recession...

Friedrich Hayek by Rodrigo Moynihan, National Portrait Gallery, London

Economists

Friedrich August Von Hayek

Friedrich August Von Hayek (pronounced HI-YACK) was born in Vienna in 1899 to an academic family. His grandfather was a companion of Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, one of the pioneers of the Austrian School of Economics. When Hayek was growing up, reading was one of his main hobbies.   Then,...