Friedrich Hayek

Hayek's case for freedom rests on ignorance rather than rights: "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (1945) argues that the knowledge an economy runs on is scattered among millions of people, and prices coordinate it in a way no planner can. Yet in The Constitution of Liberty and Law, Legislation and Liberty he accepted a guaranteed minimum income and some state services, which is why Rothbard's followers deny he was a libertarian at all. He, for his part, wrote "Why I Am Not a Conservative".