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CIAO DATE: 03/02
Critical Review
Was Hayek an Instrumentalist?
By Ryszard Legutko
Abstract
In Hayek's Social and Political Thought, Roland Kley argues that Hayek's defense of Capitalism is instrumentalist: that is, that Hayek sees market societies as efficient mechanisms that have no independent ethical justification. But in fact, Hayek does have such a standard, one that is expressed in the notion of a discipline of freedom. This standard derives from the moral anthropology of the liberal-conservative tradition.