In 1953, shortly after the birth of neoliberalism at Chicago and shortly before Levi's volte-face, the Chicago-based Antitrust Project commenced. This project deserves to be remembered as the first self-consciously applied neoliberal project at Chicago. In 1957, after Levi's transformation, Levi joined the MPS. Since he had begun to participate in the revision of an important aspect of legal and social theory, it became a foregone conclusion that he would be ushered into the transformative intellectual experience at the heart of the "thought collective."

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1121