# Essential Hayek: Knowledge and Prices

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/essential-hayek-knowledge-prices>

**By** Donald J. Boudreaux

**Published:** June 18, 2015

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In this video, we explore one of Hayek's best known ideas and perhaps his most profound insight - the role of prices in conveying information.

This is part of [a Fraser Institute project](http://www.essentialhayek.org/) to present the key ideas of F. A. Hayek.