Polanyi's 1951 Logic of Liberty names Hayek only three times, all in the economic-calculation debate and never in connection with its theory of spontaneous order

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A direct read of Michael Polanyi's The Logic of Liberty: Reflections and Rejoinders (1951) shows that Friedrich Hayek is named only three times across the 236-page book — per its own index, pp. 124, 179n, and 181 — and all three mentions sit in the separate context of the socialist economic-calculation debate. Polanyi credits Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) alongside Frank Knight's view that centrally directed economies tend toward totalitarianism (p. 124), and notes that Hayek opposed mathematical central planning "on the grounds of its twofold impracticability" (p. 181, citing Hayek's contribution to Collectivist Economic Planning, 1935). All three loci in fact fall physically inside the chapters that carry the book's extended treatment of spontaneous order — p. 124 in ch. 8 ("The Span of Central Direction"), pp. 179n and 181 in ch. 10 ("Manageability of Social Tasks") — but each sits in a central-planning or economic-calculation passage; Hayek is never named in connection with the concept of spontaneous order itself, and appears nowhere in Part I, the preface, or ch. 9.

The upshot is that the now-standard framing of a Polanyi–Hayek "break" over spontaneous order is not staged in Polanyi's own text as a personal dispute: where the book names Hayek at all, it agrees with him. The conceptual divergence was drawn later, by scholars reading the two independently developed theories side by side (see claim-polanyi-hayek-spontaneous-orders-differ-on-directedness-toward-ideal-ends), not dramatized by the man who got the term into print first (claim-polanyi-published-spontaneous-order-1948-predating-hayeks-own-use). This qualifies the biographical picture in observation-michael-polanyi-person-bridges-three-vault-clusters-invisible-to-vault-bridge, which describes Polanyi as having "publicly disagreed with Hayek's own grounding for freedom" — true of the substance, but not something Polanyi himself staged in this book.