Hayek and Hunold’s conflict ruptured the society and threatened Hayek’s presidency

Evidence

Hayek, who had initially responded to Hunold’s hostile behavior with mild exasperation, was now utterly dismayed. “I must confess,” he wrote to Röpke in the winter of 1960, “that I am beginning to doubt if he is still entirely sane.” He was more eager than ever to step down as the society’s president but had become convinced that he would fi rst need to fi nd a replacement for Hunold in order to leave the society on stable ground. … Hunold had provided the society with “extraordinarily valuable ser vices,” Hayek wrote to the membership, but his “general conduct during the last year … convinced me that a change in the Eu ro pe an Secretaryship has become even more important than a change in the Presidency.” … In an astonishing demonstration of the dispute’s escalation, he refused to sustain his affi liation with the society until Hunold was no longer its secretary. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 336

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader MPS internal-faction history that later chapters and the neoliberal historiography (Mirowski, Plehwe) map out. — connects to: An MPS founder quit the society over the Hunold-Hayek dispute and demanded its liquidation — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1358; Röpke threatened to quit MPS in loyal protest against Hunold’s ouster. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 341

Broader Connections

• An MPS founder quit the society over the Hunold-Hayek dispute and demanded its liquidation #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1358
• Röpke threatened to quit MPS in loyal protest against Hunold’s ouster. #corroborates (0.85) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 341