Liberalism, Conservatism, and Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Order

by Peter McNamara and Louis Hunt

The Great Society is Hayek's term for his version of a classical liberal polity based on free-markets, limited government, and the rule of law. Conceived in the struggle against socialism and fascism, the idea of the Great Society can still serve as a model of a free society to set against contemporary regressions into economic populism, ethnic nationalism, fundamentalist theocracy and other forms of what Hayek would not hesitate to call tribalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403984255
• ISBN13: 9781403984258
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"