This interview with F.A. Hayek by Jack High is absolutely wonderful. Hayek reflects at great length on his colleagues in Vienna, has some very funny things to say about Hans Mayer, and talks about Mises the man, whom Hayek regards as a deeply tolerant man, a person interested in hearing and understanding all points of view. He further offers some very moving reflections on how Keynes became godlike and how his own legacy was nearly forgotten.
This particular interview is wonderful but so are all of them, now made available by the Universidad Francisco Marroquin. This is something to bookmark and keep. I find Hayek very easy to listen to. He is relaxed, eloquent, brilliant, engaging. Highly recommended.
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wow no comments on this amazing find by Jeffery?
Amazing to listen to thanks for posting Senior Tucker
There is a surprising amount of substance in these interviews.
I remember the times when I drove 700 miles to go watch these on VHS at the Hoover Institute.
Reading the “UCLA Oral History” transcript in the late 1980s in the archive room at UCLA was a revelation.
The Earlene Craver interview is particularly good on Hayek’s student years and the intellectual atmosphere of Vienna in the 1910s and 1920s.
http://hayekcenter.org/?cat=47
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