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Michael Polanyi and Spontaneous Order, 1941-1951

Struan Jacobs

Tradition and Discovery 24 (2):14-28 (1997)

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From red spirit to underperforming pyramids and coercive institutions: Michael Polanyi against economic planning.Gábor István Bíró - 2022 - History of European Ideas 48 (6):811-847.details ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolution of Michael Polanyi’s critique of economic planning. It portrays how the focal point of his critique shifted from addressing the ‘spirit,’ ‘social consciousness,’ and ‘public emotion’ of the people supporting planned economies to addressing the administrative ‘unmanageability’ and the logical impossibility of economic planning. Polanyi developed thought experiments of imaginary economies, contrasted the ‘pyramid of authority’ with the polygons of liberty, and explained organic and inorganic ways of adjusting economic relations. He attempted to relax (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Double Heuristics and Collective Knowledge: the Case of Expertise.Stephen Turner - 2012 - Studies in Emergent Order 5:64-85.details There is a large literature on social epistemology, some of which is concerned with expert knowledge. Formal representations of the aggregation of decisions, estimates, and the like play a larger role in these discussions. Yet these discussions are neither sufficiently social nor epistemic. The assumptions minimize the role of knowledge, and often assume independence between observers. This paper presents a more naturalistic approach, which appeals to a model of epistemic gain from others, as mutual consilience—a genuinely social notion of epistemology. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi in Correspondence.Struan Jacobs & Phil Mullins - 2016 - History of European Ideas 42 (1):107-130.details SummaryFriedrich 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. Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Community and the market in Michael Polanyi's philosophy of science.Charles Thorpe - 2009 - Modern Intellectual History 6 (1):59-89.details The chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891–1976) is today recognized as one of the most important twentieth-century thinkers about scientific knowledge and scientific community. Yet Polanyi's philosophy of science exhibits an unresolved tension between science as a traditional community and science as an intellectual marketplace. Binding together these different models was important for his overall intellectual and political project, which was a defense of bourgeois liberal order. His philosophy of science and his economic thought were mutually supporting elements within this (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations

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