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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 Ref
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.
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