In 1947, Switzerland, in the region of Mount Pilgrim, met a group of renowned economists, including the list headed by the Austrian Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman and the American philosophers likes of Karl Popper, among other popular characters such as Maurice Allais, Walter Lippman, Salvador de Madariaga, Ludwig von Mises, Michael Polanyi, William Ranpard, Wilhelm Röpke and Lionel Robbins.
One of the foundations upon which met on that occasion, is the pursuit of freedom and that openly contradicted then the position taken by governments after the war (which followed the recommendations of JM Keynes), was in fact advocating a return to free market in the purest style of Adam Smith, without any intervention from governments.
Hayek wrote in 1944 an interesting book entitled "The Road to Serfdom" (The Road to Serfdom), where Hayek discusses and attempts to show that distorts the market Keynesianism and Von Hayek and proclaims the unrestricted freedom of the economy without a minimum State intervention, becoming the chart for the economic ideology known as neoliberalism.
Von Hayek is opposed to popular sovereignty, a concept born obviously when Hitler comes to power, as sovereign of the people to vote, indicating that not always the individual political freedom is true freedom, because it is subject to the actions of others, therefore, Hayek postulated the minimalist state, where even democracy is not the right track in its philosophical libertarian.
This very brief introduction to recommend you read the interesting Post by Marco Antonio Moreno, entitled " Orthodox Macroeconomics is finished, but not all zombies who practice acknowledge that they are dead " taken Your Blog.
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