Brandt was one of the 167 academics rescued in 1933 by the New School for Social Research (in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation). He eventually joined the faculty of the Food Research Institute at Stanford University (founded in 1921 with financial support from the Carnegie Corporation) and served on President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers (1958–1961). A founding member of MPS, Brandt presented papers or chaired panels ten times between 1947 and 1962. He quit the Society in 1962 and called for its liquidation because its atmosphere of friendship and cooperation had been destroyed and because of the Hunold/Hayek affair (Hartwell 1995, 136–137; Walpen 2004, chapter 3).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1358