Title
Hayek and the Common Law
Document Type
Grant Proposal
Date Accepted
Summer 2005
Project Description/Abstract
I will examine Hayek’s distinction between spontaneously-emerging, “bottom-up” social orders (as chiefly instantiated in the common law) and coercive, “top-down” social orders (as instantiated in commands of a sovereign). I will discuss the significance of this distinction for liberal political theory, and its ramifications for other fields, mainly law and economics.
Recommended Citation
Skoble, Aeon J. (2005). Hayek and the Common Law. CARS Summer Grants. Item 130.
https://vc.bridgew.edu/summer_grant/130
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