Synopsis
Stephanie Flanders looks at the radical free-market economist Friedrich Hayek's solution to the problems of capitalism - set it virtually totally free from state control.
- Programme: Masters of Money
- Episode: 02: Hayek
- Channel: BBC HD
- Broadcast year: 2012
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