Entrevista a Friedrich Von Hayek
Leo en Free Market Minut, la columna que Karen Palasek tiene en la Fundación John Locke, una entrevista realizada a Friedrich von Hayek el 22 de Junio de 1975.
Interviewers: Irving R. Levine of NBC News
George F. Will of National Review
Hobart Rowan of The Washington Post
Eileen Shanahan of The New York Times
“Dr. von Hayek, in the 30 years since World War II, some nation’s economies have done very much better than others. West Germany, for example, has done much better than Great Britain. Are there any generalizations that you can draw from these? What is the secret to success and the secret to problems?”
Hayek:
“Well because it’s a very complicated issue because of one simple point the German trades unions were extraordinarily sensible, and they were sensible because they remembered what inflation meant. They had a certain implication that this sense may not last long, because the generation which remembers it is now going off. I’m rather apprehensive about the future.”Will:
“Dr. von Hayek, we have a basically Conservative administration in the United States today, but even it is facing planning deficits, more or less planned deficits, exceeding perhaps a hundred billion dollars in the next two years. Do you think this will cause a renewed and perhaps socially destructive inflation?”Hayek:
“It’s not unlikely, I’m afraid. So long as governing people are persuaded that inflation of this sort is even beneficial in its effect, the tendency in that direction will be very great. I think it all depends on persuading the responsible people of the danger of inflation.”Rowan:
“Dr. von Hayek, you talked in response to Mr. Levine of a painful adjustment of the unpleasant effects that we would have to endure in order to beat inflation. With all due respect, sir, aren’t your theories somewhat unrealistic in a political sense? Do you visualize governments today being able to take such steps as you recommend?”Hayek:
“Perhaps I’m unrealistic. As long as people do not fully realize the danger of inflation, they may well pressure for more inflation as a short-term remedy for evils. Though we may well be driven into more, until people have learned the lesson, but that means that inflation may still do more.. a great deal of harm, before it will be cured.”
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