{"product_id":"friedrich-hayek-constitution-liberty-london-1960-122980","title":"The Constitution of Liberty.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003ethe cornerstone of neo-liberalism\u003c\/h4\u003eThe first edition of this foundational work of neo-liberal thought by the economist and philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), made famous by the oft repeated anecdote that Margaret Thatcher, to cut short a presentation by a 'wet' member of the Conservative Research Department, slammed her copy of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eConstitution of Liberty \u003c\/em\u003edown on the table, declaring 'This is what we believe!'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere \u003cem\u003eThe Road to Serfdom\u003c\/em\u003e contained a sustained attacked on the malign forces of totalitarianism and the enchroaching-state, \u003cem\u003eThe Constitution of Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e, published to coincide with the centenary of J.S. Mill's \u003cem\u003eOn Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e, offered a positive vision of what a low-interventionist government may look like: 'to picture an ideal, to show how it can be achieved, and to explain what its realization would mean in practice' (Preface).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe resultant work contains a discussion of ethics, jurisprudence, the history of ideas and economics of the modern welfare state, analysing the ethical foundations of what a 'free' society might look like where individual liberty is the prized-basis of morality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition, first impression; 8vo (24 x 16 cm); slight offsetting to front free endpapers, light spotting to fore-edge and endpapers; publisher's ochre cloth, lettered in gold on blue ground to spine, upper cover slightly soiled, publisher's unclipped salmon-pink dustjacket lettered in blue, a little spotted, very good; x, 569, [1]pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"HAYEK, Friedrich August von.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57636622991735,"sku":"122980","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/122980_01.jpg?v=1792774656","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/friedrich-hayek-constitution-liberty-london-1960-122980","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}