Röpke shared his concerns, writing in 1955 that the society was subject to "always noticeable" tensions between advocates of "paleoliberalism" and "neoliberalism." He applied the former label to those who sought to reinstitute laissezfaire economic policies reminiscent of the nineteenth century, and the latter to advocates of less rigid and more holistic solutions to contemporary social problems.

Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, loc. 350