[society-by-contract]

Hayek's Why I am Not a Conservative:

http://hem.passagen.se/nicb/cons.htm

[Carthago delenda est]

Henry Regnery once said about that famous essay that everybody who read it, except for poor Hayek himself, came away thinking that Hayek really was, at heart, a conservative.

The free-market economist Milton Friedman has had to run the same gamut. He once protested Hayek's "conservative" label in a letter to Policy Review, and said that he considered both himself and Hayek to be "Old Whigs."

Friedman received this reply from the editor: "You too are a conservative. Sorry."