"As a result of the efforts of Hayek, Friedman, and the many others who share their general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited."
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Irving Kristol, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, Chap. 9: “Capitalism, Socialism, and Nihilism”, (1995), p. 93.
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