Classic From F. A. Hayek that Inspired WIKIpedia

In researching the below posts, I came across this great piece by Dick Clark;
WIKIpedia: What Is It Good For?at http://mises.org/daily/2704

In that piece, Clark notes that WIKIpedia founder Jimmy Wales was inspired by an essay by Austrian economist F. A. Hayek. Fascinating.

Here is Hayek's famous essay, in its entirety:
The Use of Knowledge in Society by Freidrich A. Hayek
at http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Economics/HayekUseOfKnowledge.html

The Dick Clark We All Know And Love

I was pleased to see that Dick Clark was a trending search term, according to yahoo, today. Of course, the Dick Clark I'm referring to is neither the elderly veejay personality, nor his cryo-preserved head made famous in "Futurama," it's the libertarian mastermind Dick Clark from the Mises Institute, who is now somewhere in frozen flyover country.

I was pleased to see that google images returned an image of the Dick Clark I know and whose writings I love.

...Right next to the Futurama cartoon of the other Dick Clark's cryonically-preserved head.

I hope Dick's taking advantage of his "trend" in the search engines. He's one of the few libertarian philosophers I know who is "right about everything." (I also put Radley Balko, Marc Stevens, and Jacob Sullum into that category.)

Dick is the author of the fine book "Fighting Back." Follow the prior link to get your free copy today, and if you like it, purchase a hard copy!