
Hayek has claimed he doesn't have Jewish ancestry but others say he does. Regardless, there have been many Jew Nobel Prize laureates in the dismal science (39% of world total, 50% of US total):
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Paul Samuelson # (1970)
Simon Kuznets # (1971)
Kenneth Arrow # (1972)
Wassily Leontief 1 (1973)
Leonid Kantorovich # (1975)
Milton Friedman # (1976)
Herbert Simon #,2 (1978)
Lawrence Klein # (1980)
Franco Modigliani # (1985)
Robert Solow # (1987)
Harry Markowitz # (1990)
Merton Miller 3 (1990)
Gary Becker # (1992)
Robert Fogel 4 (1993)
John Harsanyi 5 (1994)
Reinhard Selten 6 (1994)
Robert Merton 7 (1997)
Myron Scholes 8 (1997)
George Akerlof 9 (2001)
Joseph Stiglitz 10 (2001)
Daniel Kahneman 11 (2002)
Robert Aumann 12 (2005)
Leonid (Leo) Hurwicz 13 (2007)
Eric Maskin 14 (2007)
Roger Myerson 15 (2007)
Paul Krugman 16 (2008)
Elinor Ostrom 17 (2009)
Peter Diamond 18 (2010)
Alvin Roth 19 (2012)
Others 20 [Hayek listed among these] http://www.jinfo.org/Nobels_Economics.html