Friedman and Hayek sought corporate sponsorship for popular free-market books

Evidence

At the 1964 meeting, Milton Friedman and Hayek circulated a prospectus for a book series on “Principles of Freedom,” in which prominent free market intellectuals would write short popular volumes for an audience of undergraduates and lay readers; they had already attracted numerous corporate sponsors for the series, including GE, DuPont, Shell Oil, and U.S. Steel. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1474

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Atlas funded translations of liberal classics to spread free-market principles — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 584; Business patrons funded free market ideas while fearing intellectual disloyalty — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1442

Broader Connections

• Business patrons funded free market ideas while fearing intellectual disloyalty #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1442
• Atlas funded translations of liberal classics to spread free-market principles #exemplifies (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 584