Von Hayek was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1931 to 1950, the University of Chicago between 1950 and 1961, and at Freiburg University in West Germany until his death in 1992. Von Hayek was mentor to the Mont Pelerin Society, begun in 1947 at a hotel in Switzerland, whose annual convocation is attended by the leading lights of neoliberalism. The society is dedicated to the “exchange of ideas about the nature of a free society and... the ways and means of strengthening its intellectual support” (Leube 1984: xxiii). All of this history went relatively unnoticed until the Bank of Sweden awarded the 1974 Nobel prize for economic science to Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich von Hayek “for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.” Von Hayek’s ideas became more important during the late 1970s and early 1980s with the rise of conservative governments in the United States and United Kingdom. Margaret Thatcher, Conservative party prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, was a disciple of von Hayek. Ronald Reagan read von Hayek and took advice from Hayekian economic advisers. Thus, von Hayek completed the rightist revolution begun by his mentor, von Mises.