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Oddly enough Hayeks last paragraph reinforces Klein's point as made in his review.. Here tis, as you emphasized it:
"None of these conclusions are arguments against the use of reason, but only arguments against such uses as require any exclusive and coercive powers of government; not arguments against experimentation, but arguments against all exclusive, monopolistic power to experiment in a particular field-power which brooks no alternative and which lays a claim to the possession of superior wisdom -- and against the consequent preclusion of solutions better than the ones to which those in power have committed themselves.
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Hayek previously explained this in more detail to those, -- who imo seek to see Hayek as advocating a anti-libertarian type of morality, -- here:
"The antirationalistic position here taken must not be confounded with irrationalism or any appeal to mysticism.
What is advocated here is not an abdication of reason but a rational examination of the field where reason is appropriately put in control."
Klein opined:
"Hayek's philosophy and those of Milton Friedman, David Boaz, and Charles Murray are all very similar. Rothbard's "anarcho-capitalism," too, is largely congruent. All are now properly considered to be varieties of libertarianism. Hayek wisely rejected rationalist libertarianism.
Hayek, like Reagan, saw general conservatism at mid-twentieth century as part and partial to a spirit of libertarianism. In fact, Hayek, in the appendix we have referred to saw US conservatism, in general, differing from continental conservatism and termed it libertarianism.
Since that time, we have had Objectivists, doctrinaire Ideologues and rationalist of the left trying to capture libertarianism's spirit and simple constitutional principled adherence to freedom and turn it into something that seems foreign to our heritage. That is the only type of libertarianism that I have had trouble with in my posts in the past.
Terms get sooooo much baggage, that sometimes only turning to the detail will give us a clear view of the principles advocated. I believe conservatives and libertarians of many tempers can agree with Hayek's detailed overview here. I am glad that we appear to be in those ranks of general agreement.
I also note, that the conclusion Hayek draws, supports an adherence to traditionally small central government, not one fostered in growth by rationalistic schemes.