Etienne Mantoux was recognized among the circles of early neoliberals as a highly promising scholar, mostly through his essay on Keynes’s claim that Germany could not pay back the reparations demanded after the First World War. He argued the opposite (as did others among the early neoliberal economists, especially Rueff and Heilperin). Educated at Sciences Po in Paris as a student of Halévy’s, whom he admired and visited privately on a regular basis, he moved to London in the mid-1930s to study with Harold Laski and Hayek at the LSE.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 380