Hayek and the Hayekians on the Political Order of a Free People

F. A. Hayek published articles over seven decades and across multiple disciplines. This fact alone suggests the presence of a severe interpretative challenge in understanding Hayek’s work, as Bruce Caldwell (2004) has pointed out. There are the intellectual challenges that Hayek faced throughout his career—methodologically, analytically, and ideologically—and there is the challenge to any scholar who hopes to make sense of Hayek’s work and to discuss his system coherently. How do all the pieces fit together?