One might have added, how much more powerful are ideas consciously forged with the vested interest firmly kept in mind! Not without admiration, we have to concede that neoliberal intellectuals struggled through to a deeper understanding of the political and organizational character of modern knowledge and science than did their opponents, and therefore present a worthy contemporary challenge to everyone interested in the history of science and the archaeology of knowledge.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2117