THe follow is from the UCLA Oral History interviews with Hayek by Alchian, Buchanan, Bork, Craver, etc.: Hayek: "I now realize .. that the decisive influence was just reading Menger's _Grundsetze_. I probably derived more from not only the _Grudsetze_ but also the _Methodenbuch_, not for what it says on methodology but for what it says on general sociology. This conception of the sponeneous generatin of institutions is worked out more beautifully there than in any other book I know." Robert Bork: "Is it possible for you to identify now the major intellectual inflences on the development of your thought?.." Hayek: "Oh, I think the main influence was the influence of Carl Menger's original book, a book which founded the Austrian school and which convinced me that there were real intellectual problems in eoconomics. I never got away from this." Greg Ransom Dept. of Philosophy UC-Riverside [log in to unmask]