The neoliberal version of a calculated companionship of mutual interest and integration between unions and employers had been dominant inside MPS circles since the end of 1940s. However, a few key MPS members refused to consider any such alliance as the correct attitude of a refurbished liberalism. Since 1944 Hayek, for example, strongly criticized a “deliberate collaboration between organized capital and organized labor” because it would be conducive to the growth of monopolies and detrimental for the larger community (Hayek 1993 , 148).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 966