… is from page 146 of Liberty Fund’s 2011 Definitive Edition (Ronald Hamowy, ed.) of F.A. Hayek’s soaring 1960 book, The Constitution of Liberty (footnote deleted):
Responsibility, to be effective, must be individual responsibility…. As everybody’s property in effect is nobody’s property, so everybody’s responsibility is nobody’s responsibility.
DBx: Today – March 23, 2021 – is the 29th anniversary of Hayek’s death. Hayek was, when he died in 1992, about six weeks shy of his 93rd birthday.


Responsibility, to be effective, must be individual responsibility…. As everybody’s property in effect is nobody’s property, so everybody’s responsibility is nobody’s responsibility.
