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By all means let us assist the poorer people as much as we can in their own efforts to build up their lives and to raise their standards of living. An international authority can be very just and contribute enormously to economic prosperity if it merely keeps order and creates conditions in which the people can develop their own life; but it is impossible to be just or to let people live their own life if the central authority doles out raw materials and allocates markets, if every spontaneous effort has to be "approved" and nothing can be done without the sanction of the central authority.

The Road to Serfdom

Hayek is far more reasonable than modern libertarians. I found bits of The Road quite appealing. Although it's possibly a little too easy to say that we should limit our involvement to "creating conditions" conducive to development. That's all most people would believe, they just differ on what conditions we should create. But then perhaps I don't understand how seriously communist people were back in the day, and the fact that almost no one is anymore is partly thanks to arse munchers like Hayek.