Crane wanted European scholars to absorb American business culture

Evidence

“I am exceedingly anxious that they see something of America beside the Atlantic Seaboard, for one of the great values of the meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society is that these foreign economists, political scientists, historians, and other educators, who know nothing of America, should receive on this visit to the United States some idea of the American way of life, cultural values, and philosophy,” he wrote to John Holmes, an executive of the Chicago meatpacking firm Swift & Company. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1471

Categorization

• XREF: The effort to immerse European thinkers in corporate America prefigures later neoliberal network-building through industry-funded institutions.