 UCLA economist Armen Alchian remembers the excitement of reading Hayek's essay and stopping fellow economists in the hallway to ask if they had read Hayek's essay.In 2011 "The Use of Knowledge in Society" was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in the "American Economic Review" during its first 100 years.Jimmy Wales cites "The Use of Knowledge in Society", which he read as an undergraduate, as "central" to his thinking about "how to manage the Wikipedia project".