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There are good reasons why we should endeavour to use whatever political organization we have at our disposal to make provision for the weak or infirm or for the victims of unforseeable disaster. It may well be true that the most effective method to provde against certain risks common to all citizens of a state is to give every citizen protection against those risks. The level on which such provisions against common risks can be made will necessarily depend on the general wealth of the community. It is an entirely different matter, however, to suggest that those who are poor, merely in the sense that there are in the same community of those who are richer, are entitled to a share in the wealth of the latter or that being born into a group which has reached a certain level of civilization and comfort confers a title to a share in all its benefits.
 
Hayek, Friedrich A.
The Constitution of Liberty
1960 , p. 101

 

About Catallaxy Institute

Founded on March 2009 in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Catallaxy Institute is an international association whose long-term aim is to contribute to develop and divulgate the principles and values of the classical tradition of liberalism.

A reason why St. Moritz was chosen as the founding location is that three of the most influential works of classical liberalism of the last century (F.A. Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty; M. Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom and B. Leoni’s Freedom and the Law) are the result of lectures and discussions that Hayek, Friedman and Leoni, among others, had in 1957 in St. Moritz during a series of meetings organized by the Mont Pelerin Society (Kemp, A., introducing Leoni, B., 1991, Freedom and the Law (Liberty Fund, Indianapolis), p. xiii).

Catallaxy Institute is regulated by its Statute.

Catallaxy Institute's founding members are Giovanni Birindelli (president), Alexander Wulf (vice president), Juan Diego Serrano and Oleksiy Kurka


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"A catallaxy is thus the special kind of spontaneous order produced by the market through people acting within the rules of the law of property, tort and contract".F. A. von Hayek, Law Legislation and Liberty (London, 1982), Vol. 2 (1976), pp. 108-109.