Neoliberal Geneva experts adopted Hayek’s cybernetic systems view of world order
Evidence
By his own testimony, Tumlir was also influenced by the text explored above, an extract from the end of the Law, Legislation and Liberty trilogy, which Hayek delivered as a speech in Hong Kong. In June 1979, before he wrote his most important synthetic texts on international order, Tumlir wrote to Hayek about the “marvelous ending of your third volume,” which had changed his “views on a number of issues.” “It is difficult to imagine,” he wrote, “that anyone in this century or the next fifty years could provide a deeper foundation for a theory of justice and liberal order.” Tumlir signaled his acceptance of the cybernetic undertones in Hayek when he asserted that “an economy, national politics under a constitution and the international economic order can all be considered homeostatic self-equilibrating systems.” To Tumlir, Hayek’s attention to the problems of verticality and federal forms above the nations complemented the ordoliberal focus on horizontality within the nation. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 831
Categorization
- XREF: Links Hayek’s Law, Legislation and Liberty to the Geneva GATT legal experts — connects to my broader reading on how epistemic communities transmit ideas across sites. — connects to: Neoliberals recast Hayek’s tacit knowledge into a commodified thing for scientific resonance — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2162; Cybernetics framed global economy as price-driven feedback among guided agents — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 832; Neoliberal ‘spontaneous order’ rhetoric masked deliberately orchestrated institutional networks — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2114 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberals recast Hayek’s tacit knowledge into a commodified thing for scientific resonance
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2162 - Cybernetics framed global economy as price-driven feedback among guided agents
#expands(0.75) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 832 - Neoliberal ‘spontaneous order’ rhetoric masked deliberately orchestrated institutional networks
#expands(0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2114