Hayek's Liberalism and its Origins
Subtitle: His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 20, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780415183222
First sentence: The idea of spontaneous order plays a central role in Hayek's social theory: 'it would be no exaggeration to say that social theory begins with - and has object only because of - the discovery that there exist orderly structures which are the product of the action of many men but are not the result of human design'.