Hayek personally opposed strong intellectual property despite his followers endorsing it

Evidence

This happened even though Hayek himself opposed strengthened intellectual property at various points in his career, and further, did not think all knowledge could be comprehensively articulated. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2191

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts the actual Hayek with the neoliberal policy agenda that claimed his authority; connects to wider work on how intellectual pioneers get retrofitted. — connects to: Hayek viewed strong intellectual property rights as pernicious legal monopolies. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 176; Hayek’s market-morals argument drew on explicitly ethical justifications of capitalism. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 491; An Austrian economist led early MPS opposition to intellectual property law. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 182