Liberty, Mores, and Democracy: Between Tocqueville and Hayek

ABSTRACT

Alexis de Tocqueville and Friedrich Hayek offer two illuminating accounts of modern liberty that are seldom measured in light of each other. The conference appraised each of these two accounts in light of the other to elucidate the classical liberal conception of freedom.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

Hayek, F. A. The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Hayek, F. A. Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People [Phoenix series]. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Hayek, F. A. Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order [Phoenix series]. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Hayek, F. A. Individualism and Economic Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Hayek, Friedrich A. The Road to Serfdom (The Reader's Digest Condensed Version as it appeared in the April 1945 edition of the Reader's Digest). London: The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1999.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. The Old Regime and the Revolution: The complete text. Edited by François Furet and Françoise Mélonio. Translated by Alan Kahan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated by James T. Schleifer. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2010.