Marjolin worked as chief assistant for Charles Rist’s research institute at the time of the colloquium. Rist was certainly among the intellectual influences on Marjolin, who was otherwise inspired in his economic thinking by both Keynes and Hayek as well as Knut Wicksell, Gunnar Myrdal, and John Hicks. At the time of the WLC, Marjolin had just turned twenty-seven and he was already a specialist in macroeconomics and business cycle theory as well as the relation between socially conscious politics and liberal markets.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 381