Neoliberals saw themselves as outnumbered with no policy influence

Evidence

The participants, high in the Swiss Alps, were only too conscious that they were outnumbered and without apparent influence on policymakers in the Western world. All across Europe, planning and socialism seemed ascendant. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s interest in how a fringe network later became dominant—useful context for thinking about the intellectual ascendancy of neoliberalism. — connects to: Neoliberal economics rose to dominance through a policy vacuum, not popularity — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 119; Neoliberal ideas penetrated even nominally hostile parties and communist states — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 80; Early neoliberals were mainstream in 1939 but marginal by 1945 — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 405 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 119

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal economics rose to dominance through a policy vacuum, not popularity #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 119
• Early neoliberals were mainstream in 1939 but marginal by 1945 #corroborates (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 405
• Neoliberal ideas penetrated even nominally hostile parties and communist states #corroborates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 80