The neoliberal embrace of Christianity was not necessarily a product of faith. Hayek was himself agnostic, but he believed that Christianity was essential for cultivating the morals of the market and the willingness to submit to the market order. A 'refusal to submit to anything we cannot understand', he warned in The Road to Serfdom, 'must lead to the destruction of our civilization'.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 123