Hayek endorsed suspending freedom to preserve market institutions long-term

Evidence

‘The Model Constitution’ also forthrightly defends emergency powers; ‘freedom may have to be temporarily suspended’, Hayek wrote, echoing Carl Schmitt, ‘when those institutions are threatened which are intended to preserve it in the long run’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 362

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s human-rights discourse work: the friend/enemy distinction and emergency-powers logic of Carl Schmitt resurfacing in market-liberal thought complicates the ‘markets vs. authoritarianism’ binary. — connects to: Hayek saw collectivist mass politics as the long-standing destroyer of free markets. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 69; Hayek’s extended order subordinates political authority to market discipline — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 120; Hayek repeatedly praised Pinochet, Salazar, and Suharto’s dictatorships as liberty-preserving — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 363 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Documents how Hayek co-opted the Schmittian justification for suspending freedom — a key link in the market-liberalism-meets-authoritarianism genealogy.