Hayek on the "Genius for Compromise"

Steven Horwitz

Richard Ebeling has unearthed a very interesting column by Hayek from The Spectator in 1945.  The context was as a response to some of the critics of The Road to Serfdom.  As Richard noted in his email to us, this presages Hayek's discussion of principles and expediency in Law, Legislation, and Liberty.  It is also very relevant to our own times.  You should be able to click on the PDF link below to download it.  Thank you Richard for sharing this with us.

Download Hayek - Genius for Compromise (1945)

Comments

[Greg Ransom]

One wonders why more of this kind of material isn't beibg published in "The Collected Works of F A. Hayek"

Hayek has some good short piece on the central planning of science, on scientism and on liberalism, among other topics, which have never been collected.

One can only hope that the plan is to publish this stuff, although the schedule of volumes in the series doesn't leave hint of any such plan.

[Matěj Šuster]

Is the short piece on the cetral planning of science available anywhere online? Thanks a lot.

[Greg Ransom]

Matěj Šuster, if I remember right Hayek's writings against the science planners / nationalizers were in _Nature_.

They may have their archive available to subscribers, I don't know.

[Richard Ebeling]

The article in "Nature" is called, "Planning, Science and Freedom," (1941).

I looked through some of my files, and I'm not able to find a copy. (I thought I had it, somewhere.)

Richard Ebeling

[Matěj Šuster]

Available here -- but only for a ridiculously high price of US$32. :-))
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v148/n3759/abs/148580a0.html