Development economics was a persistent MPS concern, not a marginal one

Evidence

Development issues were discussed at sixteen of the thirty-two general meetings between 1947 and 1998 by a total of 110 MPS members and guests (including Anne Krueger and Jagdish Baghwati; see Liberaal Archief, 2004). In addition, a total of thirty speakers discussed development issues at nine of seventeen regional MPS meetings held between 1966 and 1990, according to the conference programs available at the Hoover Institution’s MPS archive. While Peter Bauer and Herbert Frankel contributed most frequently to the conferences (six and four times, respectively), Hartwell (1995) fails to help understanding the long-term collective effort. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1338

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s earlier claim that MPS was not merely a monetarist/anti-Keynesian club but engaged a broad policy agenda including development. — connects to: Development economics entered the MPS agenda via Mises’s 1951 proposal — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1272; The MPS constituted an early intellectual network of development economics — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1289; Fieldwork-based development economists shaped MPS ranks and conservative policy — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1362 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Fieldwork-based development economists shaped MPS ranks and conservative policy #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1362
• MPS research argued patents obstruct economic development in poorer countries #exemplifies (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 184
• Development economics emerged as a heterodox discipline that traditional neoclassical economists opposed #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1262