ABSTRACT
Hayek’s readers in the English-speaking world have had some difficulty in placing his views. There have been some attempts to assimilate them to conservatism (e.g. Letwin 1976). But Hayek is an enthusiast for change,3 and is single-minded in his attachment to the market. He has, for example, written of his
He has advocated radical moves in the field of economic policy,4 and his writings also contain almost utopian proposals for constitutional reform (Hayek 1973-8, vol. 3). All this makes it difficult to present Hayek as a conservative, and he has also explicitly dissociated himself from a conservative reading of his work in his ‘Why I am not a Conservative’ (Hayek 1961, Postscript).
