If the market economy was to be preserved, it would need to be presented as part of a potentially compelling worldview. Hayek established the Mont Pèlerin Society because he believed that this act of ideology formation could occur only over time, among groups of sympathetic intellectuals who shared a po liti cal goal but were shielded from the rhetorical pressures of contemporary policy debates.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 307