'If we could have stopped the world at two nuclear weapons states, or before terrorism, or bird flu or HIV, well...But one of the few axioms of our world seems to be its growing complexity, at once wonderful and terrifying. HAYEKrs"S GARDEN will be a guide to living in such a world, less a book of predictions about the future and more a field guide to the unpredictable, unknowable world that awaits us. Written as I envision it, the book will read something like the dispatches from the early explorers, the tales of men who left the warmth of their clubs and comfort of their ideas, to see how the world really looked and to write both about how that journey changed them and how what they saw would one day change the world.'