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Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition Farrant, Andrew (Ed.) www.ssoar.info Hayek, Mill and the liberal tradition Farrant, Andrew (Ed.) Veröffentlichungsversion / Published Version Sammelwerk / collection Zur Verfügung gestellt in Kooperation mit / provided in cooperation with: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Farrant, A. (Ed.). (2010). Hayek, Mill and the liberal tradition (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, 121). London: Taylor & Francis. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-273745 Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer CC BY-NC-ND Lizenz This document is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND Licence (Namensnennung-Nicht-kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung) zur (Attribution-Non Comercial-NoDerivatives). For more Information Verfügung gestellt. 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One objective is to provide a discussion of the tensions that seemingly pervade aspects of Hayek’s account of the intellectual history of the liberal tradi- tion. For example, one unfortunate consequence of Hayek’s reading of Smith and Mill is that certain themes – e.g., sympathy and analytical egalitarianism – that played a vitally important role in their thinking are either seriously under- played in Hayek’s account or, rather worse, apparently ignored. Adding these key ideas (e.g., sympathy) to the Hayekian corpus leads to a rather broader understanding and conception of the liberal tradition than that usually associated with Hayekian social theory per se. A broad- based work that is a valuable addition to the literature on Hayek and the liberal tradition more generally, this book will be of great use to anyone who is interested in social theory, intellectual and economic history alike. Andrew Farrant is Assistant Professor of Economics at Dickinson College. 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