1. Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), p. 160 (hereafter cited as CL). Hayek is quoting Michael Polanyi.
2. Friedrich A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, vol. 1, Rules and Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), p. 2.
3. For a useful recent discussion of Hayek’s conception of “spontaneous order” see Christina Petsoulas, Hayek’s Liberalism and Its Origins: His Idea of Spontaneous Order and the Scottish Enlightenment (London: Routledge, 2001), chapter 1.
4. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1981) (hereafter cited as WN), I, ii. 1.
5. See on this Jerry Z. Muller, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).