Academics from the Austrian emigration dominated the MPS’s US leadership until the 1960s

Evidence

The composition of MPS members mirrors the overall membership composition of the MPS (Plehwe and Walpen 2006), whereas the official positions are almost exclusively held by the most numerous contingent of MPS members: academics. Very infrequently, corporate leaders (like Manuel Ayau) or think tank officials (like Edwin Feulner) served as MPS presidents. … The “white emigrants” from Austria (Hayek, Mises, Machlup, Haberler, Popper) were key U.S or UK-based academic MPS members until the 1960s. Otherwise, two journalists (John Davenport and Henry Hazlitt) and one think tank official (Leonard Read of the Foundation for Economic Education [FEE]) formed the core of the U.S.-based neoliberal activists. Only during the 1960s did U.S. professors Milton Friedman, James Buchanan, and George Stigler ascend to leading positions, eventually being elected MPS presidents. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 127

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 127
• XREF: connects to: Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376; Haberler’s career spanned the Austrian school, League of Nations, Harvard, and AEI. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1757; Neoliberalism’s leading thinkers were Austrian refugee philosophers of science — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 57

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s leading thinkers were Austrian refugee philosophers of science #expands (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 57
• Haberler’s career spanned the Austrian school, League of Nations, Harvard, and AEI. #exemplifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1757
• Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League #corroborates (0.70) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376