Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi in Correspondence. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jacobs, Struan; Mullins, Phil
• Is Part Of: History of European ideas. Volume 42:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 107
• Page End: 130
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Freedom -- liberalism -- democracy -- economics -- science; Europe -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals; Europe -- History -- Periodicals; 190.5
• DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2014.1002971
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-6599

Abstract

Summary: Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi corresponded with each other for the best part of thirty years. They had shared interests that included science, social science, economics, epistemology, history of ideas and political philosophy. Studying their correspondence and related writings, this article shows that Hayek and Polanyi were committed Liberals but with different understandings of liberty, the forces that endanger liberty, and the policies required to rescue it.