Existing histories of neoliberalism have either struggled to explain the composition of the WLC or focused on a handful of participants, usually the better-known intellectuals and economists. Yet what about the others? What about José Castillejo, a Spanish lawyer? What about a group of French industrialists, bankers, and young scholars like Etienne Mantoux and Robert Marjolin, the latter known for his spell at the OEEC and the European Commission, but less for his neoliberalism? Unable to account for the presence of most participants, existing histories either ignore or simply enumerate them. But if the Agenda of Liberalism represents early neoliberalism, then who were all the other participants besides the well-known protagonists? Were they not neoliberals? After all, they all agreed on the same agenda.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 367