The following excerpt is taken from a chapter called “Who, Whom?” in The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek , who won the Noble Prize in Economics in 1974.
Although under competition the probability that a man who starts poor will reach great wealth is much smaller than is true of the man ______ has inherited property, it is not only possible for the former, but the competitive system is the only one where it depends solely on him and not on the favors of the mighty, and where nobody can prevent a man from attempting to achieve this result.
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Friedrich Hayek, the economist mentioned in the previous question, shared his Nobel Prize with Gunnar Myrdal . Both were honored for, in the words of the prize committee, "Research on the interrelations between economic, social and political processes."
Here is an excerpt from the introduction to Myrdal's 1932 book The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory .
Soon, however, Myrdal was to shed his more conservative ideas. There was one person especially who helped him to do this—Alva Reimer, who later was to become his wife. She was a most extraordinary young woman, _______ Myrdal had met in June 1919 while biking through Sweden with two friends.
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