Hayek, the Answer Man

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At 83, the Grand Guru of Conservative Economics Bites Off All He Can Chew
By Henry Allen

Washington Post

By Henry Allen

Washington Post

"Snuff," says Friedrich Hayek. He is a 1974 Nobel laureate in economics. He is 83, a prize old bull of conservative intellectuals and the unwavering foe of the rationalist scientific mindset of most of the famous minds of our century. He is sitting in an office at the Heritage Foundation on Capitol Hill, and he is opening a leather snuff box.

"I buy it in London at a shop that has 36 varieties of it. This is called Dr. James Robinson Judge's mixture."

He deposits a pinch of brown powder in the hollow on the back of his hand behind his…