Early IEA figures were seen as harmless eccentrics by contemporaries

Evidence

A recent BBC documentary on British neoliberalism, Tory! Tory! Tory!, suggested that the general perception of Harris and Seldon during the 1950s and 1960s was that they were harmless eccentrics with little insight into the workings of government. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 494

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the outsider-origin story of the neoliberal network that this book reconstructs from its beginnings.