Early Hayek wrote obscure technical economics untouched by overt political ideology.

Evidence

His disputes with Keynes in economic journals attracted broad attention within the profession, and he did not shy away from contributing to the ongoing socialist calculation debates. In both cases, however, he focused on analytic questions and avoided explicit invocations of broader philosophical claims. … His writing was still thematically abstruse, stylistically Germanic, and preoccupied with problems in capital theory that even many economists found diffi cult to comprehend. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 132

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early Hayek held that economics could guide policy without claiming normative expertise. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 132