• DOI:10.1353/JHI.2012.0011
Corpus ID: 144979195

Freedom, the Common Good, and the Rule of Law: Lippmann and Hayek on Economic Planning

@article{Jackson2012FreedomTC,
  title={Freedom, the Common Good, and the Rule of Law: Lippmann and Hayek on Economic Planning},
  author={B. Jackson},
  journal={Journal of the History of Ideas},
  year={2012},
  volume={73},
  pages={47 - 68}
}

B. Jackson

Published 2012

Sociology

Journal of the History of Ideas

This article examines the intellectual relationship between Friedrich Hayek and Walter Lippmann in the 1930s and 1940s, and argues that Lippmann's writings on economic planning were a neglected influence on the development of Hayek's political thought in this period. Lippmann's work provided a first approximation of arguments that Hayek would later make this own: that planning would destroy civil and political freedom; that a certain form of legal order was essential to the preservation of… CONTINUE READING

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