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William Easterly, Professor an der New York University, über Jeffrey Sachs, Professor an der New Yorker Columbia University:

Scientific American, in its November 2006 issue, reaches a “scientific judgment” that the great Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek “was wrong” about free markets and prosperity in his classic, “The Road to Serfdom.” The natural scientists’ favorite economist — Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University — announces this new scientific breakthrough in a column, saying “the evidence is now in.” To dispel any remaining doubts, Mr. Sachs clarifies that anyone who disagrees with him “is clouded by vested interests and by ideology.”

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First, Mr. Sachs disses the great Hayek by repeating the old canard that Hayek thought any attempt at taxpayer-funded social insurance would put us all on the “Road to Serfdom.” This is an especially strange charge, since Hayek (while certainly opposed to the social engineering that proponents of a full-blown welfare state usually have in mind) himself calls for some form of taxpayer-funded social insurance against severe physical deprivation on pages 133-134 of “The Road to Serfdom.” Mr. Sachs, who is currently best known for his star- driven campaign to end world poverty, has apparently spent more time studying the economic thinking of Salma Hayek than that of Friedrich.

Aus: William Easterly. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern Edition). New York, N.Y.:Nov 15, 2006. p. A.18

Siehe auch: Foreign Policy’s First Annual List of the 100 Top Global Thinkers. No 39. Jeffrey D. Sachs & William Easterly.