Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order

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University of Chicago Press, Feb 15, 1978 - Business & Economics - 184 pages
This volume represents the first section of F. A. Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Rules and Order constructs the framework necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of justice and of the conditions which a constitution securing personal liberty would have to satisfy.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Reason and Evolution
8
2 Cosmos and Taxis
35
3 Principles and Expediency
55
4 The Changing Concept of Law
72
The Law of Liberty
94
The Law of Legislation
124
Notes
145
Index
181
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F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of Vienna, University of London, University of Chicago, and University of Freiburg.