Between the end of the 1940s and the end of the 1950s, the discipline of economics underwent major transformations: its central role in public policy and the large increase in the number of teaching and research sites helped widen the teaching cadre and diversify its cherished values. Neoliberalism now seemed largely outré.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 291