The Colloque Walter Lippmann helped spread the realization that honoring discrete academic disciplinary boundaries would probably hinder the project. The figures who gathered in 1938 saw the point of ranging widely over the traditional preserves of philosophy, politics, theology, and even the natural sciences. Neoliberals started to recognize the growing need "to organize individualism" in order to counter what was perceived as an unfortunate but irreversible politicization of economics and science (Zmirak 2001, 11). To achieve their goal of the "Good Society," neoliberal agents agreed on the need to develop long-term strategies projected over a horizon of several decades, possibly to involve several generations of neoliberal intellectuals. No single genius or "saviour" would deliver the neoliberals into their Promised Land.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 116