United under the umbrella of the MPS since 1947, neoliberals mobilized for the first time a directed capacity for changing the world under peacetime conditions without the interruptions created by war and emigration. But it is important to recognize the earlier efforts made between World Wars I and II. During the 1930s, concerned liberals felt an increasingly urgent need to confront the perceived evils of planning and the failures generated by the laissez-faire attitudes of fellow liberals.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 99