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From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either the one or the other, but not both at the same time. The equality before the law which freedom requires leads to material inequality.
 
Hayek, Friedrich A.
The Constitution of Liberty
1960 , p. 87

 

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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.