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Why Hayek Rejected Merit-Based Equality

Why Hayek Rejected Merit-Based Equality

Audio Mises Wire · Mises Institute

December 17, 2025

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In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however, understood that in a free society, inequality is inevitable, and it is something we must accept.

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