The second major academic figure of importance for Aron was Bouglé's good friend, Elie Halévy, who was a much admired, well-connected philosopher and historian specializing in economic and political thought and deeply devoted to the question as to how the circle of social justice and economic freedom might be squared. In fact, Halévy, who had died from heart disease in 1937, taught the young French WLC participants and they all were enthralled by his intellectual and human capacities.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 378