Friedrich Hayek TimeLine -- 1890-2000

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Highlights

1890's   Friedrich A. Hayek is born in Vienna, Austria.

1900's   Hayek acquires childhood interest in botany, his father's specialty.

1910's   Youthful interests turn theoretical,  Hayek reads complex tomes by Weismann, Feuerbach, & De Vries.

1920's   Hayek develops marginalist monetary theory & uses it to anticipate U.S. downturn of 1929.

1930's   Hayek recasts explanatory strategy of social theory, in battle to complete marginalist revolution.

1940's   Publication of The Road to Serfdom rockets Hayek to international fame.

1950's   Hayek publishes The Sensory Order, landmark neurological account of human cognitive functioning.

1960's   Hayek publishes The Constitution of Liberty, works on Law, Legislation, & Liberty.

1970's   Nobel Prize in Economics provides public symbol of dramatic intellectual turning of the tide.

1980's   Hayek-related research explodes, Thatcher & Reagan lead Hayek-influenced global liberal revival.

1990's   Hayek dies in Freiburg Germany as statism gives way to liberalism in central Europe.