The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That's the consensus among economists. That's the Hayek legacy.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.