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A new edition of F. A. Hayek's three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume
In this critical entry in the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series, political philosopher Jeremy Shearmur collates Hayek's three-part study of law and liberty and places Hayek's writings in careful historical context. Incisive and unrestrained, Law, Legislation, and Liberty is Hayek at his late-life best, making it essential reading for understanding the philosopher's politics and worldview.
These three volumes constitute a scaling up of the framework offered in Hayek's famed The Road to Serfdom. Volume 1, Rules and Order, espouses the virtues of classical liberalism; Volume 2, The Mirage of Social Justice, examines the societal forces that undermine liberalism and, with it, liberalism's capacity to induce "spontaneous order"; and Volume 3, The Political Order of a Free People, proposes alternatives and interventions against emerging anti-liberal movements, including a rule of law that resides in stasis with personal freedom.
Shearmur's treatment of this challenging work-including an immersive new introduction, a conversion of Hayek's copious endnotes to footnotes, corrections to Hayek's references and quotations, and the provision of translations to material that Hayek cited only in languages other than English-lends it new importance and accessibility. Rendered anew for the next generations of scholars, this revision of Hayek's Law, Legislation, and Liberty is sure to become the standard.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
A new edition of F. A. Hayek?s three-part opus Law, Legislation, and Liberty, collated in a single volume.
