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Big-business funders backing anticommunist causes also funded the Mont Pèlerin Society

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aliases@mirowski_road_2009, loc. 972

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Big-business funders backing anticommunist causes also funded the Mont Pèlerin Society

Evidence

Because of the way the lines were being drawn, it is not surprising that those who financially supported the antiunion economic discourses and those who operated through anticommunist organizations or free market institutions, like the FEE, turned out to be one and the same. It was the case for J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil Company) and Jasper E. Crane (DuPont), two major funders behind MPS activities. In the 1930s, both men initiated the earliest campaigns against the New Deal via the National Association of Manufacturers. Fiercely anticommunist, Pew and Crane invested in FEE and its campaigns in favor of free enterprise ideology (see Chapter 8 by Phillips-Fein in this volume). In 1947, Crane became a MPS member; Pew did as well in 1954. Both had been major donors to the MPS since 1958. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 972

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior focus on the Milgrom/Roberts trade-institutions work and network formation, and to general histories of the neoliberal network’s corporate funding origins. — connects to: A private donor’s veto shaped the Mont Pèlerin Society’s founding membership — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 259; Mont Pèlerin entrepreneurship scholarship was co-financed and steered by corporate interests. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 281; Corporate funding made the first Mont Pèlerin meeting financially possible — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 117 (+4 more)

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