There is no such thing as a 'society' with a duty to care for its members, he argued, anticipating Margaret Thatcher. Hayek contended that 'society' is simply a 'spontaneous order' that emerges as individuals and families pursue their welfare on the market. In social and economic rights, he saw the influence of a conflicting social philosophy, which viewed 'society' as a 'deliberately made organization'. Hayek gave law and rights a central role in his own account of a free society predicated on the division of labour. Far from dismissing human rights, he criticised the drafters for weakening the concept of 'right' and destroying all respect for it. A declaration of rights should do no more than the 'time-honoured political and civil rights' have always done, he argued: 'delimit individual domains' in which private initiative, entrepreneurialism, and personal responsibility can flourish.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 146