Hayek: Social Justice is a Meaningless Conception

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12/20/2012Dan Sanchez

For Hayek, "Justice is an attribute of individual action. I can be just or unjust toward my fellow man." But "social justice" is a "meaningless conception."

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Dan Sanchez is a libertarian writer and an editor at the Foundation for Economic Education. He is a contributing editor at Antiwar.com, where he writes a regular column, and an independent journalist at Anti-Media. His work has frequently appeared at such websites as Zero Hedge, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, and David Stockman's Contra Corner. His writings are collected at DanSanchez.me.

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