In their opinion, arrangements between organized labor and capital paved the way to the institutionalization of a quasi-corporatist regime, which implied a terrible threat to the market economy and, in their view, a free society. That is precisely what one of the most prominent of neoliberal thinkers, Friedrich A. Hayek, argued in his famous pamphlet published in 1944, The Road to Serfdom (Hayek: 1993 , 145–148). In fact, Hayek identified this issue as the thorniest question that neoliberals would have to tackle in the postwar world. … Hayek delegated to the MPS the task of formulating "an appropriate program of labor or trade-union policy." As he insisted, "if there is to be any hope of a return to a free economy, the question of how the powers of trade-unions can be appropriately delimited by law as well as in fact is one of the most important of all the questions which we must give our attention" (Hayek 1949, 117).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 953