Friedrich Hayek | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 30 pages of analysis & critique of Friedrich Hayek.

Friedrich Hayek | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 30 pages of analysis & critique of Friedrich Hayek.
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SOURCE: “Hayek on Liberty,” in Economica, Vol. 28, No. 109, February, 1961, pp. 66-81.

In the following review of Hayek's Constitution of Liberty, Robbins praises Hayek's commitment to individual freedom but criticizes his refusal to include English nineteenth-century Utilitarians such as Jeremy Bentham among its defenders.

[The Constitution of Liberty]1 is a very ambitious book. “It has been a long time,” says the author, “since that ideal of freedom which inspired modern Western civilization and whose partial realization made possible the achievements of that civilization was effectively restated”2: it is such a restatement which is here attempted. The range covered is extensive: social philosophy, jurisprudence, economics and politics are all summoned to make their contribution to the main theme and a broad historical perspective informs the whole. In a revealing passage Professor Hayek explains that, although he still regards himself as mainly an economist, he has “come to feel more and...

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