Austrian and British elites of the 1930s shared a postwar-world-building vocation.

Evidence

Hayek and Wells moved in the same circles in 1930s Britain—an academic and cultural elite that felt obliged to rethink the foundations of a postwar world. ­There was a shared sense of duty among Austrian elites like Hayek, Mises, Hans Kelsen, and Hersch Lauterpacht, who had trained to serve what was now a vanished empire, and British elites like John Maynard Keynes, Lionel Robbins, Edwin Cannan, and James ­Meade, who ­were seeking to reform a still-­living one. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 412

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the broader theme of ‘the end of empire and the birth of neoliberalism’ central to the whole book.