Abstract
[...] because he is often seen as more important for the institutions he built than for the things he wrote. "[...] he wrote in 1974, "the only authentic criterion for judging any economic or political system, or any set of social institutions, is this: what kind of people emerge from them?" In asking such a question, he offered us a perspective that cuts against both the statist liberalism that is now in power and the anti-statist libertarianism that asserts itself as statism's only principled alternative.