Angner argues that hayeks work should be seen as continuous with the natural law tradition going on to analyze the response to his work and explain why some have found his ideas so attractive and why others have found them so unpersuasive the book develops novel accounts of his thought on spontaneous order information and coordination. Angner argues that hayeks work should be seen as continuous with the natural law tradition going on to analyze the response to his work and explain why some have found his ideas so attractive and why others have found them so unpersuasive the book develops novel accounts of his thought on spontaneous order information and coordination. Providing a radical new reading of hayeks life and work this new book by an important hayekian scholar dispels many of the mysteries surrounding one of the most prominent economists and political philosophers of the twentieth centuryangner argues that hayeks work should be seen as continuous with the natural law tradition going on to an. If hayek has a contribution to make to natural law the most obvious place to look for it is humes theory of natural law which hayek has openly and repeatedly praised as the first true philosophy of his own brand of liberalism 9 of course such an undertaking must avoid the scylla of seeing hayek as a kantian as well as the charibdis of seeing hume as a utilitarian since in either case we shall miss the link to the central concern of natural law theory nevertheless i do not think the