Front Cover -- Hayek on Liberty -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Note to the Third Edition -- Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgements -- 1. Hayek's System of Ideas: Its Origins and Scope -- The unity of Hayek's system of ideas and its philosophical character -- Hayek's general philosophy: the Kantian heritage -- Four influences on Hayek's sceptical Kantianism: Mach, Popper, Wittgenstein and Polanyi -- Hayek's relations with the Austrian School of Economics and his account of the methodology of social science -- Hayek on knowledge and the mind: implications for social theory -- 2. The Idea of a Spontaneous Social Order -- Spontaneous order versus the constructivist fallacy -- The central conception of spontaneous order and its applications to physical and social phenomena -- The application of spontaneous order in economic life: the catallaxy -- Cultural evolution and the natural selection of traditions -- 3. The Law of Liberty -- The origins and nature of law -- Individual liberty under the rule of law -- The rule of law and the myth of social justice -- The juridical framework of spontaneous social order -- 4. Economic Theory and Public Policy -- Social science and public policy -- Neoclassical equilibrium, the theory of capital and the character of the business cycle -- Hayek versus Keynes and Friedman on the role of money in the real economy -- Shackle's critique of Hayek -- 5. Some Contrasts and Comparisons -- J.S.Mill -- Herbert Spencer -- Karl Popper -- 6. Assessment and Criticism -- The unity of Hayek's system of ideas -- The status and content of the idea of spontaneous order in society -- Hayek's constitution of liberty: some criticisms assessed -- Conservatism and radicalism in Hayek's social philosophy -- The Hayekian research programme and the prospects of social philosophy.

Hayek's thought and the future of political philosophy -- Postscript: Hayek and the dissolution of classical liberalism -- Biographical Note on Hayek -- Bibliographical Note on Recent Studies of Hayek -- Notes -- Index.