1st Edition
Law, Legislation, and Liberty A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy
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
Biography
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.
