This is the Cato Daily podcast for Friday, January 3rd, 2025.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Liberalism and libertarianism describe a world that is ordered without human design.

In the Constitution of Liberty, Frederick Hayek challenged some of the narrow focus of liberals on economics without appreciating contributions from a

much wider range of fields. I spoke with Paul Meaney about the deep moral traditions that can

emerge to create and sustain the free society. So nominally, we are here to discuss the Constitution

of Liberty, but really the Constitution of Liberty, but really the Constitution

of Liberty, a wonderful book that I've read small pieces of, is really just a ruse to talk about

something else entirely.

So when you are thinking about in the context of our

broader discussion, the Constitution of Liberty, what stands out to you? Well, Constitutional

Liberty written by Hayek in the 60s, it's a little bit different from Hayek's other works,

because Hayek is mainly known as an economist. Famously, he won the Nobel Prize in economics.

But Hayek is not writing a solely economic book. And if we had the chance to talk about

Constitution of Liberty in its entirety, it would take hours, possibly days. It's a long book,

but it's also a dense book. It's filled with footnotes, filled up digressions, discussions,

all of these things. But what I find most interesting about it is something that I think we can talk about in a short book. It's filled with footnotes, filled with digressions, discussions, all of these things.

But what I find most interesting about it is something that I think we can talk about in a shorter

period of time is Hayek's approach. Hayek is mainly known as an economist, but the book split up

into three parts. The first part deals with basic philosophical principles behind liberalism,

the second deals with the legal development and history

behind it, and only really when you get to the third part of the book is it dealing in solely

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