Hayek's Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions

by Steven Horwitz

Book Overview

Scholars within the Hayekian-Austrian tradition of classical liberalism have done virtually no work on the family as an economic and social institution. In addition, there is a real paucity of scholarship on the place of the family within classical liberal and libertarian political philosophy. Hayek's Modern Family offers a classical liberal theory of the family, taking Hayekian social theory as the main analytical framework. Horwitz argues that families...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137448229
• ISBN13: 9781137448224
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"