When Friedrich A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom was first published in 1945, it was compared by critics to John Stuart Mill's celebrated essays On Liberty. In the present work, Professor Hayek gives us a positive statement of the principles of free society that in scope and breadth is more like a new Wealth of Nations. Written for the general reader, The Constitutions of Liberty provides a re-statement of the ideals of freedom that have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. If the free world is to survive, it warns that we must know, first of all, what it is we believe and what it is we want to preserve.