Law, Legislation, and Liberty

F. A. Hayek (1899–1992), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and cowinner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. Jeremy Shearmur is a fellow emeritus in philosophy at the Australian National University. His published books include The Political Thought of Karl Popper and Hayek and After: Hayekian Liberalism as a Research Programme, among others.

• Editorial Preface   Editor’s Introduction   Law, Legislation, and Liberty   Consolidated Preface to the One-Volume Edition   Volume 1    Rules and Order   Introduction   1          Reason and Evolution   2          Cosmos and Taxis   3          Principles and Expediency   4          The Changing Concept of Law   5          Nomos: The Law of Liberty   6          Thesis: The Law of Legislation   Volume 2    The Mirage of Social Justice   7          General Welfare and Particular Purposes   8          The Quest for Justice   9          ‘Social’ or Distributive Justice   10        The Market Order or Catallaxy   11        The Discipline of Abstract Rules and the Emotions of the Tribal Society   Volume 3    The Political Order of a Free People   12        Majority Opinion and Contemporary Democracy   13        The Division of Democratic Powers   14        The Public Sector and the Private Sector   15        Government Policy and the Market   16        The Miscarriage of the Democratic Ideal: A Recapitulation   17        A Model Constitution   18        The Containment of Power and the Dethronement of Politics   Epilogue: The Three Sources of Human Values