Similarly for Hayek, Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge was the latest avatar of “scientism” where the comprehension of the mechanisms of thought would allow the theoretician to predict its development. The “constitutional limitations of the individual mind” proposed by Hayek as the foundation of spontaneous orders solved the problem of coordination and integration that Mannheim was hinting at with his scientific planning.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 88