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Who was August von Hayek's father?

  • Friedrich Hayek

  • Ernst Hayek

  • Gustav von Hayek

  • Julius Hayek

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Gustav von Hayek (1865-1947) was an Austrian economist and social theorist who is considered to be one of the founders of modern economic thought. He was the father of Friedrich August von Hayek, who was also a Nobel Prize-winning economist. Gustav von Hayek's work focused on the relationship between individual freedom and economic prosperity, and he argued that a free market economy was the best way to achieve both.
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