It is striking that at the turn of the 1980s, before the role of cybernetics in Hayek’s thought had even been acknowledged by scholars, Hayek and the GATT ­legal experts ­were writing from a shared perspective on hierarchical systems of communication and conduct. In the work of the neoliberal experts in Geneva, the multitiered meta­phor that Hayek used for cognition was scaled up to rethink world economic order.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 833