Hayek’s own theory was reshaped by the 1930s planning debate.

Evidence

Arriving in England in 1931, Hayek did not simply apply his expertise on the German-language calculation debate of the 1920s to the English situation. Rather, his own thinking was transformed by the planning mania of the 1930s. As he emphasized in his inaugural lecture at the LSE, the way forward for liberals was to learn from the failures of free market rhetoric in order to initiate a long-term process of ideological change. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 67

Categorization

• XREF: Undermines the ‘Hayek as timeless Austrian apostle’ caricature — his interventionist-era formation is essential to a genuinely historical map of neoliberalism. — connects to: 1930s crisis drove Hayek, Polanyi, and Lippmann to rethink liberalism’s epistemology. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 66; Hayek, Polanyi, and Lippmann each reframed planning as an epistemological problem. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 66
• DEFINE: Frames ‘neoliberalism as ideological counter-movement provoked by planning popularity,’ a key definitional thread for the reader.

Broader Connections

• Hayek, Polanyi, and Lippmann each reframed planning as an epistemological problem. #expands (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 66