The Use of Knowledge in Society: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich Hayek: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 6 original MP3 tracks, 38:37 running time and a link to listen.
The Use of Knowledge in Society, credited to Friedrich Hayek, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich Hayek. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers An article written from a scholarly point of view in 1945 which critically examines the concept of a planned economy while highlighting the efficiencies of a decentralized market structure (as propounded by Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian School of Economics). Hayek, famous for stating von Mises' complex theories in more understandable terms, highlights in this short paper the important role of "localized information" in a decentralized economic structure, which is unavailable to central planners, comparing their purely theoretical arguments against real "free market" statistics that have been proven over time and practice to produce better results. (Summary by msfry/progressingamerica)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Use of Knowledge in Society
- Author credits: Friedrich Hayek
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 6
- Listed recording duration: 38:37
Catalogue topics
- economics
Track guide
- 01 - Introduction — 5:25
- 02 - The Use of Knowledge in Society — 6:22
- 03 - Uncommon Knowledge — 5:12
- 04 - The Planner's Dilemma — 6:45
- 05 - Useful Individual Knowledge — 4:26
- 06 - "Miracle" of the Price System — 10:27
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