It did not take long for Robbins to disabuse Keynes of that notion. Citing an international literature that was largely unfamiliar to the other members of the committee, Robbins argued that many of the group’s central assumptions were ill founded. He encouraged them to solicit the opinions of younger scholars from other countries, suggesting as one possibility the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, who had recently written an article criticizing public works proposals in the United States.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 64