Even historians sympathetic to neoliberalism have concluded that Hayek's approach to knowledge preclude a direct genealogy rooted in Hume (Kukathas, Hayek and Modern Liberalism; Petsoulas, Hayek's Liberalism and Its Origins). That Smith would never have accepted neoliberal politics is a hallowed theme in the history of economic thought.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 1813