Category: MY PHOTO JOURNEY
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Knowledge, Markets and the Limits of Social Planning (Friedrich Hayek, 1899–1992)
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992) was an Austrian-British economist and political thinker whose work centred on a basic problem: no person or state can possess all the knowledge needed to organise a complex society. From this starting point he developed a broad defence of markets, limited government, the rule of law and individual liberty. He…
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Education, Power and the Practice of Freedom (Paulo Freire, 1921–1997)
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher whose work reshaped debates about education, power and social change. His best-known book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (first published in Portuguese in 1968), argued that education is never neutral. It can reproduce existing social relations, or it can help people understand and challenge them. Freire attacked…
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