Single Idea 22599

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 4. Free market]

Full Idea

Hayek was a liberal (rather than a conservative), …but the individual liberty he cared about was not diversity or freedom of thought. It was freedom to operate in the market.

Gist of Idea

Hayek was a liberal, but mainly concerned with market freedom

Source

report of F.A. Hayek (The Road to Serfdom [1944]) by Ian Dunt - How to be a Liberal 7

Book Reference

Dunt,Ian: 'How to Be a Liberal' [Canbury Press 2020], p.216


A Reaction

There seems to have been a drift from obsession with freedom to participate in the market, towards the less plausible idea that market forces can solve everything. I once met someone who was convinced the market could solve environmental problems.