Salma Hayek was born on in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Her father is of Lebanese descent and her mother is of Mexican/Spanish ancestry. After having seen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) in a local movie theater, she decided she wanted to become an actress.

Friedrich August von Hayek was born in Vienna [32] to August von Hayek and Felicitas Hayek (née von Juraschek). [1] The surname Hayek is derived from the Czech surname Hájek and can be traced to an ancestor with the surname "Hagek" who migrated from Prague in the 1500s.

Friedrich Hayek was a renowned economist known for his work in the Austrian school of economics and his defense of free-market capitalism. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 for his...

F.A. Hayek was an Austrian-born British economist noted for his criticisms of the Keynesian welfare state...

Hayek saw himself as more fox than hedgehog, yet for all that his life’s work, for which he won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, was spent exploring the nature and significance of spontaneous order.

Hayek’s writings on capital, money, and the business cycle are widely regarded as his most important contributions to economics. Building on Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit (1912), Hayek showed how fluctuations in economy-wide output and employment are related to the economy’s capital structure.

Hayek received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1974 for his pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and his sharp analysis of the interdependence of economic, social, and institutional phenomena.