The publication of a Croatian translation of Friedrich August von Hayek's "Individualism: Genuine and Fake" (1946) occasions this biographic note introducing the Austrian economist to Croatian readers. Hayek is characterized as a liberal politologist & political economist who opposed John Maynard Keynes's doctrine of state intervention in the national economy; Hayek's most representative publications & those in which he carried out his polemics with Keynesian ideas of the government influencing the market, although not eliminating it, are mentioned. Methodologically, Hayek is placed as a continuator of the empiricism & "methodological individualism" of Karl Menger's Austrian School of Economics & an elaborator of L. Mises's statistical-dynamic equilibrium approach. It is pointed out that Hayek opposed all forms of government intervention into the free market: the planned economy of the Soviet era, German national socialism, Italian & Spanish fascism, & the modern welfare state. A selected bibliography of Hayek's works is compiled. 52 References. Z. Dubiel
Gustav August Vichodil bio je jedan od najznačajnijih hrvatskih agronoma s kraja 19. i početka 20. stoljeća. Rođen je u današnjoj Češkoj. Osim u rodnoj zemlji, školovao se u Njemačkoj i Mađarskoj, a prije dolaska u Hrvatsku radio je u Mađarskoj, Austriji i Češkoj. U Hrvatsku je došao tijekom rujna 1874. godine na poziv Zemaljske vlade u Zagrebu da bi preuzeo mjesto tajnika Hrvatsko-slavonskog gospodarskog društva. Budući da se iskazao kao izvrstan poljoprivredni stručnjak, 1878. godine imenovan je za ravnatelja Kraljevskog gospodarskog i šumarskog učilišta u Križevcima. Nažalost, već je 1890. godine zbog teške bolesti umirovljen, no nakon ozdravljenja ponovno je počeo raditi i pisati brojne članke o poljoprivredi, koje je objavio u hrvatskim i austrijskim publikacijama. U svojim prvim radovima Vichodil se ponajčešće bavio poljoprivrednom ekonomijom, pa ga se smatra osnivačem te grane znanosti u Hrvatskoj. Kasnije je puno pozornosti posvećivao svinjogojstvu, ali i organizaciji poljoprivrednog obrazovanja u Hrvatskoj. Pritom spada među prve autore koji su pisali o uzgoju ruža. Zbog doprinosa razvoju agronomije u Hrvatskoj, uoči smrti dodijeljen mu je prvi počasni doktorat poljoprivrednih znanosti na Sveučilištu u Zagrebu. ; Gustav August Vichodil was one of the most prominent Croatian agronomists at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in today's Czech Republic. Apart from his native country, he studied in Germany and Hungary, and before coming to Croatia, he worked in Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic. He came to Croatia in September 1874 at the invitation of the Provincial Government in Zagreb to take over the position of the secretary of the Croatian-Slavonian Economic Society. Since he proved to be an excellent agricultural expert, in 1878, he was appointed head of the Royal Agriculture and Forestry College in Križevci. Unfortunately, he retired in 1890 due to a severe illness. However, after recovering, he went back to work and wrote numerous articles on agriculture, which he published in Croatian and Austrian publications. In his early works, Vichodil mostly dealt with agricultural economics, which is why he is considered to be the founder of that branch of science in Croatia. Later, he paid a lot of attention to pig farming, as well as to the organisation of agricultural education in Croatia. He was also one of the first authors to write about the cultivation of roses. Due to his contribution to the development of agronomy in Croatia, shortly before his death, he was awarded the first honorary doctorate in agricultural sciences at the University of Zagreb.
