Comics that turn the main ideas of Friedrich Hayek into stories anyone can follow, so his thinking on freedom, knowledge and the limits of planning reaches readers far beyond universities.
Why
Friedrich Hayek, winner of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, wrote some of the most influential work on freedom, markets and the limits of what governments can plan. Few people outside universities ever read it. Comics can carry big ideas to readers who would never pick up the originals.
What we are doing
In partnership with the Atlas Network, we are turning Hayek’s main ideas into comics that anyone can pick up, with no background in economics needed. Each one takes a single idea and tells it as a story that is easy to follow and hard to forget.
The first, The Grand Plan, is based on his essay The Use of Knowledge in Society. You can read it below, and find every comic as it comes out on the Commons Comics page.
It is our most significant project yet with the Atlas Network, whom we have worked with for a year, and it builds on our own public policy comic, Padayatra.
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The Grand Plan
By Sonal Kuruvilla. A leader puts his best minds in charge of the whole economy, and learns why no single mind can know what millions of people know. Based on Hayek's essay The Use of Knowledge in Society.
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Photo: Friedrich Hayek at the London School of Economics in 1981. LSE Library, no known copyright restrictions.
