Jacob Levy — How Should Liberals Think of Social Injustice?
The Curious Task
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The Importance of Justice in High X Thought
Hayek is consistent enough in his terminology that he doesn't that he shies away from using the word justice. He says, it is simply obviously true that the common law tends to favor the class interests of the classes from whom the judges are drawn. And so, over time you get compounding magnifying advantages to employers over workers and creditors over debtors. So even though he doesn't call it justice, I think it's a critically important example for seeing how Hayekian thinking about inputs and social outputs in an emergent phenomenon.
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