French employers’ federation CNPF financed the Mont Pèlerin Society’s European operations

Evidence

The CNPF of Georges Villiers subsidized the MPS in Europe and sponsored its meetings. The fourth congress of the Society was thus held in France in September 1951. Organized in Beauvallon, on the French Riviera, and bringing together sixty-eight participants, it cost the CNPF nearly 2 million francs (the rough equivalent of 39,000 contemporary euros). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 292

Categorization

• XREF: Business funding of an ideas network connects to the reader’s interest in how the neoliberal network formed and influenced policy. — connects to: Mont Pèlerin entrepreneurship scholarship was co-financed and steered by corporate interests. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 281; Big-business funders backing anticommunist causes also funded the Mont Pèlerin Society — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 972; 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
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 292

Broader Connections

• Big-business funders backing anticommunist causes also funded the Mont Pèlerin Society #exemplifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 972
• Corporate and family money funded the Mont Pelerin Society’s American meeting #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1464