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name: thinker-friedrich-hayek
description: Apply the Friedrich Hayek: Spontaneous Order and Dispersed Knowledge article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Friedrich Hayek: Spontaneous Order and Dispersed Knowledge

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-friedrich-hayek). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-friedrich-hayek.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-friedrich-hayek/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

Hayek's Core Observation Friedrich Hayek observed that complex economic orders arise without central direction. Individuals act on local knowledge. Their separate choices produce coordinated results through prices. Prices carry information 

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-friedrich-hayek
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-friedrich-hayek
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-friedrich-hayek/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-friedrich-hayek/revisions
