This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, April 29th, 2011.

I'm Caleb Brown. To whom was Hyac's Constitution of Liberty addressed?

It's considered one of Hyac's best works, but it existed within

its time and was aimed to deal with some questions raised by many of his contemporaries.

Bruce Caldwell is editor of the collected works of FA Hayek.

He spoke at the Cato Institute yesterday.

I'm going to talk a little bit today about how Hayek came to write the Constitution of

Liberty, but I want to first recognize Ronald as the

editor of this magnificent volume.

I felt that the collective works was very fortunate to be able to get someone who was on the scene when Hayek published the book and indeed Ronald didn't mention but he wrote a he was the book review editor of the New Individualist Review.

And volume one, number one in April 1961 contained his critique of Hayek's views.

And Hayek actually wrote a response

and to give you an idea, I mean Ronald was very modest

in his portrayal of his own views but the response that Hayek wrote was

the only to my knowledge review or response to to something that someone wrote

that he published later in his own collections of works.

It was published in Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 1967.

So I found the exact right person for the job and I will just also for those of you who know the Constitution of Liberty

The one of the big differences between this volume and the original volume is that instead of having end notes

They're formulated as footnotes so you can actually just look down at the bottom of the page and see everything that Hyac was saying and believe me,

you could read the end notes as a volume in itself in the old edition.

Well now you have that stuff right down at the bottom of the page.

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