The leadership role played by individuals who could offer financial support to organizations representing their beliefs, he wrote, was of special importance when it came to supporting unorthodox ideas in “politics, morals and religion.” If “minority views are to have a chance to become majority views,” they would need to rely upon the financial support of wealthy iconoclasts.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1475