To Michael Polanyi (25 October 1943)

Dear Misi - The very feel of life is {riffrend} with your letters widening the scene of thought and keeping it warn with the touch of friendship.

My visiting {toby}, I am afraid, is {linring lommlepemerate arlia} sensible. [...]

[4] The comparative novelty of individual fear of hunger or an organizing {jailor} in industry; the Speenhamland origins of classical economics; some more interesting than plausible (the identity of the “material” and the “formal” problems of model economy; in others words: that the misvalued problems of the 1820’s explain the crisis of the 1920’s); many more, I suppose merely plausible, without being specially interesting. He appeared completely at home in the details of 1780-1830 [...]

[5] Confe Bentham and Spencer, Fr. Wieser on foreign trade, similarly Haberler and Mises all round.

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KPA: 57/08, 3-7