Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and OrderFrom a Nobel Laureate economist, “after more than half a century, Rules and Order remains an essential book for anybody interested in politics or law” (EconLib). F. A. Hayek made many valuable contributions to the field of economics as well as to the disciplines of philosophy and politics. This volume represents the first section of 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
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1 Reason and Evolution | 8 |
2 Cosmos and Taxis | 35 |
3 Principles and Expediency | 55 |
4 The Changing Concept of Law | 72 |
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