DRAFT: Five Afterthoughts on "Slouching Towards Utopia": Friedrich von Hayek, Michael Polanyi, & Company...

Not yet ready for primetime, so here behind the paywall. Why does so much of what I see as the most interesting work in the 1900s in political economy & moral philosophy spring from an extended...

Not yet ready for primetime, so here behind the paywall. Why does so much of what I see as the most interesting work in the 1900s in political economy & moral philosophy spring from an extended Vienna Circle, anyway? Five thoughts spring from Martin Turkis’s very nice review of my 2022 Slouching Towards Utopia...

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I respond to Martin Turkis’s very nice review of Slouching Towards Utopia. But this did not turn into an essay, but rather into five afterthoughts on very different topics—on how much of Clinton-era neöliberal social-democratic wolfishness in von Hayekian sheep’s clothing was worthwhile, on the role of global warming and resource scarcity in the economic history of the 20th century, on why my book is not like Gøsta Esping-Andersen’s Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, on really-existing socialism as threat or as boost to post-WWII New Deal Order social democracy, and on ten key authors for thinking about economic history, moral philosolphy, and political economy since the 1870 coming of our era of Modern Economic Growth...

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Martin Turkis wrote a very nice review <https://polanyisociety.org/TAD%20WEB%20ARCHIVE/TAD49-2/TAD49-2-basic-pg.html> of my Slouching Towards Utopia <http://bit.ly/3pP3Krk>.

But do let me start by trying to correct the record in one respect: