Happy Hayek-Klein day
8 May 2006
| Peter Klein |
Today, May 8, is the birthday of two extraordinary brilliant, prolific, and inflential social theorists: F. A. Hayek (born 1899) and, um, me (born sometime after that). Enjoy a piece of cake for Fritz and myself.
(Another Hayek-Klein connection: I once owned a car formerly owned by the philosopher W. W. Bartley, III, for whom I had worked as a research assistant. Bartley had purchased the car in Germany, where he was conducting a series of interviews with Hayek for a planned biography, and later had it shipped to him in California. Hayek himself thus spent a good deal of time in the car's passanger seat. Naturally, when I owned the car, I told my friends that I was the holder of the "Hayek Chair.")
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Pablo F. Marchetti | 9 May 2006 at 12:41 pm
No misunderstandings, no? Was it Friedrich Hayek…not Salma Hayek who used that chair in the car? I would have chosen Salma… to spend - as you say- “a good deal of time” with her… The problem beeing that her birthday is on September 2…
OK… Sincerely now… Happy birthday to you!!! Pablo.
I am an argentine student (73 years old, just a kid) of Foss and Klein thru your books and papers.
PS.: In spite of my 73 I would enjoy Salma in my passenger´s seat, believe or not.
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Peter Klein | 9 May 2006 at 1:56 pm
Salma is great, but F. A. beats her 4 to 3 in this head-to-head matchup.
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Ali Shams | 9 May 2008 at 5:45 am
Fritz? wasn’t it Fredrich?
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Peter Klein | 9 May 2008 at 7:38 am
His friends called him Fritz.