[T]he road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. . . . Administrators had to be constantly on the watch to ensure the free working of the system. Thus even those who wished most ardently to free the state from all unnecessary duties, and whose whole philosophy demanded the restriction of state activities, could not but entrust the state with new powers, organs and instruments required for the establishment of laissez faire. (1957, 140) By the later 1980s, when the MPS members began to smell the tang of victory, they felt free to internally discuss an irony that they could not freely admit out at the nether layers of their Russian Doll: Among our members, there are some who are able to imagine a viable society without a state.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2137