Rules for a Globalised World

At the end of the 20th century mankind had completed many preconditions for a glob-alised world. Aircraft-transportation, satellite-communication and the internet had been invented and advanced. Even a single language had succeeded to be accepted as an inter-national standard. Now the most important political tasks of the 21st century will be to facilitate this process of internationalisation by establishing an international political framework so that globalisation will be mutually beneficial for all people. However, the last century gave birth not only to technological prerequisites for the process of globalisation but it has also brought out considerable intellectual work con-cerning the global dimension of the development of world history. As one of the leading thinkers of the last century, Friedrich August von Hayek also had important ideas which not only addressed the task of an order of freedom and prosperity, but he furthermore gave remarkable intellectual contribution to the possibilities and conditions of a globalised world of peace and mutual benefit.