The British ambassador to the United States reported in March of 1945: “Wall Street looks on Hayek as the richest goldmine yet discovered and are peddling his views everywhere” (quoted in Hoover 2003, 184). For example, Hayek and Hutchins entertained “Laird Bell, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University [of Chicago]; John Ivy, an oil operator from Huston, Texas; Meyer Kestenbaum, President of Hart, Schaffner and Marx; William J. Kelly, President of Machinery and Allied Products Institute; Oscar Mayer, President of Oscar Mayer & Company, meat packers; John L. McCaffrey, President of International Harvester Company; and Hermon D. Smith, Vice-President of Marsh & McLennan, Insurance” (HPHI, Hutchins to Hayek, January 12, 1950, box 55, folder 1).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 875