A number of early neoliberals who participated at the WLC continued their careers within global elite networks. Rueff became the first director of UNESCO's International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies. Marjolin became the first director of the OEEC. Auboin continued as general director of the BIS until 1958. Yet new questions arise. For if neoliberalism was already deeply entrenched in global governance networks, why was there a need for the MPS in the first place? One answer is that the embedding enacted with the postwar reconstruction, the Bretton Woods institutions, the UN, and the early European integration process was not the kind of embedded liberalism early neoliberals wholeheartedly supported. While their ideas were mainstream in the late 1930s, they were marginal by 1945.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 405