Hayek defended the language of individual rights, but only insofar as ­those rights ­were negative: the freedom to move one’s ­labor and capital where one saw fit. The rationale was based less on natu­ral law than on utilitarianism: individual choices guided by competition would solve the riddle of the complexity of the market and ensure the best pos­si­ble division of ­labor and allocation of resources.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 411