Card IV-21: FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK – I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government … all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.

Series IV · Card 21 of 21 · THE VIENNA SEMINAR

I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government … all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.

FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK · INTERVIEW, UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG · 1984

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Source

Video interview with James U. Blanchard III, University of Freiburg, 1984 (at 19:15–19:23)

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About the author

Austrian-British economist and philosopher (1899–1992), Nobel laureate in economics 1974, whose work on competition in money and limits on state control made him one of Bitcoin’s clearest intellectual forerunners.

The question on the back

Which detour are you taking because the direct road is blocked?