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A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nFriedrich August von Hayek<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the great privileges of my life was to spend a week in Scotland during 1976 in the meetings of\u00a0a small group that included F. A. Hayek, who had won the Nobel Prize in Economics two years before. \u00a0(Also in the group were future Nobel laureates like George Stigler [1982], James Buchanan [1986], Ronald Coase [1991], Gary Becker [1992], and Milton Friedman, who would win the 1976 prize just a few months after I met him.)<\/p>\n
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