Foundation funding and private research work shaped early neoliberal career paths

Evidence

At that time, Mises and Hayek earned their money at a private business cycle research institute funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to supply economic data to Austrian firms. Later characteristic features of organized neoliberalism can be discerned in the formative life experiences of leading neoliberals during the Viennese “golden” 1920s. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 101
• XREF: connects to: Founded-board dynamics and suspicion stalked the émigré Institute’s grant applications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1150; Conservative foundations funded unorthodox ideas decades before the think tank boom — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 322; Ford Foundation funding drove business schools’ academicization in the 1960s — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 322 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions #expands (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352
• Anti-New Deal businessmen funded and networked early neoliberalism, contradicting the marginality myth #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1439