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=== Nietzsche === | === Nietzsche === | ||
=== ''The Great Transformation'' (7) === | === ''The Great Transformation'' (7) === | ||
{{Page |n°=50}} Hayek's book was important in America but not in England. In England Burnham's book was important, but not in America. | |||
Fortune reviewed the Great Transformation right after Hayek's book came out. Davenport, who then came back to Fortune said: what is the American invention? America brought to the world the market economy. P. thinks it is true. | |||
P. spoke with Tawney about Hayek's book in 1944 or '45. P. was in America between '40 and '43 and in England between '43 and '46. He went back in order to sign the book in England because it was addressed: 1) to the British working class, and 2) to the New Deal. | |||
The British Working class didn't take note of it but there was a disproportionate interest in it America. P. didn't know that it had made a big hit in Bennington. (Burkhart bought 25 copies for his friends for Christmas.) | |||
In England in three and half years he lost the time in which he should have done the research. He just wrote the chapter in the Appendix on Speenhamland which nobody took any notice of. | |||
Hayek's book was practically forgotten and didn't influence England at all. Tawney said we had had this discussion 100 years ago. | |||
P. wrote the chapter on freedom | |||
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The New West
"Freedom and Technology" (5)
Comments on "Not by Organization Alone, Draft #3
Robert Owen (6)
Marx (4)
Shaw (4)
Jaspers
Trade and Market (4)
Comments on my letter of the morality of Everyday Life
Notes
Interdisciplinary Project (8)
The Economy
Tribalism
Aristotle
Nietzsche
The Great Transformation (7)
[50] Hayek's book was important in America but not in England. In England Burnham's book was important, but not in America.
Fortune reviewed the Great Transformation right after Hayek's book came out. Davenport, who then came back to Fortune said: what is the American invention? America brought to the world the market economy. P. thinks it is true.
P. spoke with Tawney about Hayek's book in 1944 or '45. P. was in America between '40 and '43 and in England between '43 and '46. He went back in order to sign the book in England because it was addressed: 1) to the British working class, and 2) to the New Deal.
The British Working class didn't take note of it but there was a disproportionate interest in it America. P. didn't know that it had made a big hit in Bennington. (Burkhart bought 25 copies for his friends for Christmas.)
In England in three and half years he lost the time in which he should have done the research. He just wrote the chapter in the Appendix on Speenhamland which nobody took any notice of.
Hayek's book was practically forgotten and didn't influence England at all. Tawney said we had had this discussion 100 years ago.
P. wrote the chapter on freedom
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Date: March 29, 1958 (Interview)
KPA: 45/17