Crane recruited American corporate executives into the Mont Pèlerin Society

Evidence

Crane tried to bring businessmen into the Mont Pèlerin Society. In early June, he sent Hayek a long list of people to invite to the conference, including B.E. Hutchinson (a retired chairman of the finance committee at Chrysler and a financial supporter), Charles Hook (the chairman of Armstrong Cork Company), Lammot du Pont Copeland (a DuPont vice president), James Rogers of the Ingersoll Milling Company, Robert E. Woods of Sears, Roebuck, Bradford B. Smith of U.S. Steel, Roger Milliken, Olive Ann Beech (president of Beech Aircraft Corporation), and Bernard Kilgore, president of the Wall Street Journal. Hayek complied in some cases, but in others he drew the line. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1470

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader historiography of how the Mont Pèlerin network reached beyond academics into corporate America, a key neoliberal-origins theme. — connects to: Corporate and family money funded the Mont Pelerin Society’s American meeting — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1464