John Locke Foundation President John Hood discusses the similarity between Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek’s method of addressing an intellectual problem and the development of the waltz as a popular dance. Hood delivered these remarks as part of a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society May 18, 2009. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
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