Hayek Rule Of Law Essay

) According to Hayek “rule of law” is a principle by which the state and lawmakers create a set of general and permanent “formal rules” that are ignore the specific needs of specific people. Instead such rules should be completely indiscriminate in such a way so that they should operate as “a kind of instrument of production, helping people to predict the behavior of those with whom they must collaborate, rather than as efforts toward the satisfaction of particular needs (Hayek, 113). The "rule of status” is a principle can be defined in opposition of this—general and indiscriminate rules are not constructed, and instead the state attempts to plan and order affairs by creating “substantive rules” which allocate rights and resources to specific people and groups depending on contextual factors. “Rule of status” requires “deliberate discrimination” on the part of the state “between particular needs of different people… allowing one man to do what another must be prevented from doing” (Hayek, 116). Hayek asserts …show more content…
By ensuring that they send good temps to client firms they reduce the risk of a client being dissatisfied with a worker and turning him/her away. In order to accomplish this, temp agencies must first “(promote) an image of the temporary workers as good worker” and then “(create) temporary workers who can live up to that image”(Smith, 59). In this vein, agencies search for workers that have a variety of characteristics. Workers should be attuned to the “unique terms of temporary employment,” especially the lower wages relative to permanent employees, and the fact that their continued employment is not guaranteed (Smith, 59). Workers should also have a “minimum level of competence, responsibility, and adaptability,” so that they can perform in a variety of positions, as little technical skill as they may require (Smith,