Confronted with the popularity of state controls, F. A. Hayek and Michael Polanyi in England, and Walter Lippmann in the United States, independently reached the same conclusion: the feasibility of economic planning was not solely a technical problem, but called for a much larger understanding of the epistemological foundations of liberalism and its relationship with the market economy.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 66