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You would be laughed out of a graduate program in philosophy or political theory if you called yourselves "Hobbesians" or "Randians." These are fundamentally childish views of the world.
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I think you edited this in after I replied, but you are mistaken in regards to Rand (dunno about Hobbes). Objectivism (the name of Rand's philosophy) actually has a major representation at top Universities, specifically those with top philosophy programs.
And, from what I know about Hayek, he does not seem so different from Rand. He actually seems to be a sort of amalgamation of Rand's philosophy and Milton Friedman's economic/political idealogies (which aren't at all exclusive of one another.... they're entriely similar), which is pretty much how I'd define myself.