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> while Hayek turned almost entirely to philosophy, law, and intellectual history after the 1930's

If he's claiming The Use of Knowledge in Society (1942) isn't about economics, then you have a very narrow view of economics. I mention it only because this essay was such a major contribution.

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> If he's claiming

He's not.

To take your example, Section 3.1 critiques The Use of Knowledge in Society via a critique of Human Action (which was published by Mises nearly a decade after 1942). Many of the observations in Section 3 (and 3.1 especially) are directly relevant to The Use of Knowledge in Society.

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