List Price: £12.99 Price: £12.34 You save: £0.65 (5%)
Media: Paperback Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
I great place to start with Hayek I've read Hayek's polemics against socialism like The Fatal Conceit and The Road to Serfdom and found them very disappointing, he is a great writer and I find his style and content in some ways similar to another english writer, the socialist, George Orwell but these books seemed very negative. This book is divided into three sections and post script, the first The Value of Freedom outlines Hayek's views on liberty, reason, responsibility and progress and politics, the second section on Freedom and The... more info
An insight and at times brilliant defence of capitalism The Constitution of Liberty can in many ways be regarded as Hayek's most important work. It centres around a highly nuanced defence of the free market based upon the concept of spontaneous order. But in articulating this defence Hayek skilfully interweaves philosophical and historical insights, at all times displaying tremendous erudition and learning.
The result is not a magnus opus like Ludwig von Mises's Human Action, or the Wealth of Nations. Hayek always regarded himself as an intellectual 'muddler'... more info
