Friedrich Hayek

Date

1899–1992

Description

City of birth: Vienna
Country of birth: Austria
Field of activity: Economics — liberalism

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Quotes

‘I don’t have many strong dislikes. I admit that as a teacher — I have no racial prejudices in general — but there were certain types, and conspicuous among them the Near Eastern populations, which I still dislike because they are fundamentally dishonest. And I must say dishonesty is a thing I intensely dislike. It was a type which, in my childhood in Austria, was described as Levantine, typical of the people of the eastern Mediterranean. But I encountered it later, and I have a profound dislike for the typical Indian students at the London School of Economics, which I admit are all one type — Bengali moneylender sons. They are to me a detestable type, I admit, but not with any racial feeling. I have found a little of the same amongst the Egyptians — basically a lack of honesty in them. If I advise speaking about honesty, I think honesty is really the best expression of what I call the morals of a civilized society.'

Author

Friedrich Hayek

Speaker

Friedrich Hayek

Title of the publication

‘Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Freidrich A. von Hayek’

Other contributors

Earlene Crayer, Axel Leijonhufvud, Leo Rosten, Jack High, James Buchanan, Robert Bork Thomas Hazlett, Armen A. Alchlan, Robert Chitester, interviewers.

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

University of California Library

City of publication

Los Angeles

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

1978

Location [pp. or web]

pp. 490–1

Other location

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoV-5p88rGU&feature=youtu.be&t=53m31s ; https://archive.org/details/nobelprizewinnin00haye/page/n7/mode/2up

Original language

English

Genre

Interview

Context

This oral history project encompasses a15-hour interview with Friedrich Hayek, conducted by nine different interviewers. The quote is from the conversation with Robert Chitester.