Series IV · Card 19 of 21 · THE VIENNA SEMINAR
‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK · LAW, LEGISLATION AND LIBERTY · 1979
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Source
“Law, Legislation and Liberty”, vol. 3 “The Political Order of a Free People” (1979), ch. 17 “A Model Constitution”, section “Emergency Powers”, p. 124 f.
About the author
Austrian-British economist and philosopher (1899–1992), Nobel laureate in economics 1974, whose work on competition in money and limits on state control made him one of Bitcoin’s clearest intellectual forerunners.
The question on the back
How many freedoms have you given up in a crisis and never got back?