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‘You Just had to Raise your Finger’

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Hayek: A Collaborative Biography

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In his Nobel Prize Lecture on ‘The Pretence of Knowledge’, Friedrich von Hayek (1974) proclaimed:

We cannot be grateful enough to such modern philosophers of science as Sir Karl Popper for giving us a test by which we can distinguish between what we may accept as scientific and what not — a test which I am sure some doctrines now widely accepted as scientific would not pass.1

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Leeson, R. (2015). ‘You Just had to Raise your Finger’. In: Leeson, R. (eds) Hayek: A Collaborative Biography. Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478245_2

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