"Friedrich von Hayek was a leader of the Austrian School of Economics, one of the prominent ""free market"" schools of economics, did not think of himself as a conservative but a ""liberal"" in the European sense; he saw as his main opponents Communisim and Keynesian economics.  His work was inspirational to Margaret Thatcher, one of the promoters of the new libertarian vogue in economics in the mid 1970's."
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