Reading the early critiques of parliamentarian democracy in the oeuvre of German ordoliberals and Austrian school neoliberals reveals the obscure authoritarian tendencies that were operating just beneath the surface of many neoliberals. These tendencies have reemerged time and again in eras of perceived danger to the neoliberal cause. These weaknesses for repressive regimes recur in the history of neoliberalism, as evidenced by Hayek's and Friedman's support of “free market economic policies” under the leadership of Pinochet in Chile, for example (see Fischer, Chapter 9 in this volume).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 543