As a sign of the seriousness with which the offer was regarded, other participants in “the first Chicago discussions of the project [included] Jacob Viner, Robert Hutchins, Karl Brandt, and [Dean Robert Redfield],” in addition to Simons and Lutz, and most probably Aaron Director and possibly Milton Friedman. Since he is often thought to have been unsympathetic to the politics of those involved, the early and close participation of Hutchins, the soon-to-be chancellor of the University of Chicago, will prove important. Hayek, however, was not the only one who was ebullient about this prospect; so too was Henry Simons of the Chicago Law School.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 719