By his own testimony, Tumlir was also influenced by the text explored above, an extract from the end of the Law, Legislation and Liberty trilogy, which Hayek delivered as a speech in Hong Kong. In June 1979, before he wrote his most impor­tant synthetic texts on international order, Tumlir wrote to Hayek about the “marvelous ending of your third volume,” which had changed his “views on a number of ­issues.” “It is difficult to imagine,” he wrote, “that anyone in this ­century or the next fifty years could provide a deeper foundation for a theory of justice and liberal order.” Tumlir signaled his ac­cep­tance of the ­cybernetic undertones in Hayek when he asserted that “an economy, national politics ­under a constitution and the international economic order can all be considered homeostatic self-­equilibrating systems.” To Tumlir, Hayek’s attention to the prob­lems of verticality and federal forms above the nations complemented the ordoliberal focus on horizontality within the nation.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 831