哈耶克为何能获得诺贝尔经济学奖——再读哈耶克的《价格与生产》

Why Friedrich von Hayek Won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences—— A Rereading of Prices and Production

奥地利学派经济学家弗里德里希·冯·哈耶克曾与瑞典经济学家冈纳·缪尔达尔一起获得1974年的诺贝尔经济学奖,以表彰他们在货币政策和商业周期上的开创性研究以及他们对于经济、社会和制度互动影响的敏睿分析。尽管哈耶克获诺贝尔经济学奖的主要作品《价格与生产》在后来被经济学界大多数人所遗忘了,但在多次研读这本著作后笔者认为,这本著作不仅有着永久的经济学理论意义,而且具有重要的现实意义。哈耶克的《价格与生产》应与凯恩斯的《通论》一样,被视为一本具有重要理论意义和现实意义的经济学著作。

Friedrich von Hayek,an economist from the Austrian School,was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974,alongside Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal,“for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic,social and institutional phenomena.”Hayek's major work,Prices and Production,has been largely forgotten in contemporary academia,yet it holds significant theoretical and practical value.This paper revisits Prices and Production,emphasizing its enduring relevance.Hayek's contributions to monetary theory,exemplified by the Hayekian Triangle,are pivotal in understanding the relationship between money,interest,prices,and capitalist economic cycles.Additionally,his insights into the appropriate monetary policies for central banks during economic crises remain pertinent.This paper argues that Hayek's Prices and Production is as crucial as Keynes's The General Theory for economic scholarship and contemporary policy debates.