Luhnow probably objected to what he considered lackluster libertarian enthusiasm in Schultz. Nevertheless, Hayek insisted that Schultz not be excluded: “If I am not mistaken somebody, contrary to Mr. Miller’s view, had rather singled out Professor Schultz as the only reliable person of my group and I had then explained that he in fact was the one among them who I knew least, but that he was indispensable as head of the department of economics in Chicago. . . . But my impression is that he will be entirely neutral, although he may occasionally plead for compromises which I trust the other members of the committee will reject.” Luhnow later capitulated, and Schultz remained on the Executive Committee. Hayek, who clearly had felt that Friedman did not have a sufficiently influential connection with the Economics Department, insisted on including Schultz as an essential component of the committee. From 1946 onward, Hayek would often exert a commensurate strategic moderating influence wherever coalitions were being recruited to the neoliberal agenda, as in the Mont Pèlerin Society.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 757