| Sumario: | The writer considers the relationship between Friedrich A. Hayek's concept of spontaneous order, which he used to praise the market, reject socialism, and argue that moral traditions are the products of evolution, and his constitutionalism. The writer's analysis reveals that Hayek's ideal constitution provides a social arena in which individuals and groups may compete, but it it offers little assurance of the cultural and political future. contain self-destructive tendencies. He points out that the spontaneous social processes on which Hayek's evolutionary social theory depends are necessarily interfered with by government, and his effort to construct a liberal constitutional scheme to accommodate spontaneously evolved rules is ultimately self-contradictory.
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