Hayek’s Mont Pèlerin Society plan borrowed directly from Röpke’s abandoned journal project.

Evidence

In developing his vision, Hayek drew directly on the plan to develop an international liberal journal that Wilhelm Röpke had conceived and then abandoned as the war drew to a close. Like Röpke’s proposed publication, this new society would aim to escape a narrow economism and would focus its attention more broadly on “the observance of universally valid moral standards in politics” and “the common background of ideas and values which a civilization needs to survive.” … Its membership would be broad based, consisting of individuals who agreed on certain basic principles but disagreed about many presentday po liti cal issues, because Hayek found par tic u lar value in those who could speak in a language persuasive to the Left. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader history of mid-century liberal internationalism and how postwar institutional networks were seeded by earlier abandoned plans — parallels the intellectual-origins method used across this book’s narrative.