Introduction
Part I: The Value of Freedom
1. Liberty and Liberties
2. The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization
3. The Common Sense of Progress
4. Freedom, Reason, and Tradition
5. Responsibility and Freedom
6. Equality, Value, and Merit
7. Majority Rule
8. Employment and Independence
Part II: Freedom and the Law
9. Coercion and the State
10. Law, Commands, and Order
11. The Origins of the Rule of Law
12. The American Contribution: Constitutionalism
13. Liberalism and Administration: The Rechtsstaat
14. The Safeguards of Individual Liberty
15. Economic Policy and the Rule of Law
16. The Decline of Law
Part III: Freedom and the Welfare State
17. The Decline of Socialism and the Rise of the Welfare State
18. Labor Unions and Employment
19. Social Security
20. Taxation and Redistribution
21. The Monetary Framework
22. Housing and Town Planning
23. Agriculture and Natural Resources
24. Education and Research Postscript: Why I am Not a Conservative Acknowledgments and Notes Analytical Table of Contents Index of Authors Quoted Index of Subjects

F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism  in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of London, the University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg.