"It will by the way be of interest to you that the main goal of my America trip was an attempt to arrange in Chicago a larger study about the question as to what changes are necessary in the “legal framework” in order to make the competitive economy effective. Unfortunately the man on whom my plans were mostly centered, Henry Simons, died suddenly and I do not know yet if the project can be continued despite that. The idea was a positive complement to my book."
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quoted in Ekkaehard A. Köhler and Stefan Kolev, "The Conjoint Quest for a Liveral Positive Program: "Old Chicago," Freiburg, and Hayek" in F. A. Hayek and the Modern Economy: Economic Organization and Activity (2013) edited by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy
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Henry Calvert Simons
Henry Calvert Simons (October 9, 1899 – June 19, 1946) was an American economist at the University of Chicago. His anti-trust and monetarist models influenced the Chicago school of economics.
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