L AW, LEGISLATION AND LIBERTY
This is Hayek's major statement of political philosophy. Rejecting
Marx, Freud, logical positivism and political egalitarianism, Hayek shows that the naive application of scientific methods to culture and education has been harmful and misleading, creating superstition and error rather than an age of reason and culture.
Law, Legislation and Liberty combines all three volumes of
Hayek's comprehensive study on the basic principles of the political order of a free society. Rules and Order deals with the basic conceptions necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of justice and of conditions which a constitution securing personal liberty would have to satisfy. The Mirage of Social Justice presents a critical analysis of the theories of utilitarianism, legal positivism and 'social justice'. The Political Order of a Free People demonstrates that the democratic ideal is in danger of miscarrying due to confusions of egalitarianism and democracy, erroneous assumptions that there can be moral standards without moral discipline, and that tradition can be ignored in proposals for restructuring society.
F.A. Hayek became both a Doctor of Law and a Doctor of Political Science at the University of Vienna. He was made the first
Director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and in
1931 was appointed to a chair at the London School of Economics. In 1950 he went to the University of Chicago as Professor of Social and Moral Sciences and then became Professor of Economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat of Frieburg and Professor
Emeritus in 1967. He was also a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974.
Hayek died in 1992.
L AW, LEGISLATION
AND LIBERTY
A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy
Volume 1
RULES AND ORDER
Volume 2
THE MIRAGE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
Volume 3
THE POLITICAL ORDER
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