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49 Ibid., 23.
50 Ibid., 24.
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62 F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 50th Anniversary edition (University of Chicago Press, 1944) 37.
63 Ibid., 45.
64 Ibid., 75.
65 Ibid., 151.
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