Professor Daniel Klein (Economics, George Mason University) in his 2012 book, Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation (New York, Oxford University Press, 2012), notes a contribution by Clarence Philbrook. Klein is addressing the challenge in the second half of the twentieth century to the broader outlook of Adam Smith’s whose morality subsumed his economic analysis. He notes the contributions of Ludwig von Mises and F. A. Hayek challenging specialization and scientism, and restoring Classical Liberalism. Klein quotes Clarence Philbrook: “The degree of apparent influence of the person holding an idea is, therefore, no measure of the potential effect of his giving…