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Western economies are failing – but capitalism isn’t the problem

Left-wing polemicists accuse neoliberals, inspired by Friedrich Hayek, of secretly running the world – but if so, they’re not concealing the whole sinister project very well

Friedrich Hayek, often seen as the founder of neoliberalism, photographed in 1981. [Alamy]
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