Just so we don't lose sight of Mont Pèlerin here, it is striking to observe that the German neoliberal Wilhelm Röpke made essentially the same observation about that organization forty-five years earlier: "To me, there is something so regrettable that verges on the crudely humorous, that a Society organized to further the search for the principles of a voluntary society of free men, should become rocked to its very roots by a contest for power" (quoted in Hartwell 1995, 123).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2160